How to migrate network users to new home directory

Want to migrate network user accounts from current directories on an internal drives on a Mac Pro to a newly connected XRAID box.
Before the XRAID was attached, network users were able to use their home directories to log into the system, but space was limited and we had them use Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices to store their data and media files. The XRAID now provides 7TB or protected storage and we'd like to move their accounts to the arrays in the XRAID box.
Have not been able to find details on how best to handle this. Don't know if the current info needs to be exported, user ID's delete/recreated - or modified to point to new home directories, and then imported, etc. I have most of the Apple 10.6 Server manuals, but have not run across info for this type of change/migration.
Thanks for any leads to this information, or how-to's.
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Did some trials with some bogus users I set up on the original share device.
Did the unshare as mentioned. Created new share directory on the Xraid. Ran CP to copy users in the old share directory to the new. Shared the new Xraid directory and set auto-mount.
While the share directories were on two completely separate volumes and their paths were fine. Workgroup Manager shows the shares by servername/sharename. So I now had sharename and sharename-1 showing up in WM. The old share directory had been Unshared, but as long as any users in WM point to the old directory - it shows up on the list.
Seeing this, I deleted the newly copied users and deleted the Xraid share directory. Then created newsharename on the Xraid, ran the CP to this new name. Used WM to change the Home directory for each user. User logon failed because the path names had changed. Deleted the new users and the new Xraid directory and retried first method with same sharename and resulting sharename-1 in WM.
Updated the user's home directories to sharename-1 in WM. Once all were changed, the old sharename dropped out of the WM list, but I was left with the sharename-1. User Logon was spotty - some were OK, others had issues, some earlier OK logons failed later. Was not rock solid.
Before I move any real user accounts and all their data, need to be certain there will be no issues. This naming issue of the share appears to be the bug in the process. Ideas to overcome this naming issue?
What I didn't try (thought of later, after testing) was to unshare the sharename-1 and go back and select the sharename again. Thinking is the "-1" due to the duplicate should not be an issue. But now the Home Directory info will have the "-1" - this caused Logon issues. Possibly WM will show these as sharename-1 as old Home location and allow me to select plain sharename and all be settled.
No where near the clean process I thought Apple Server would provide for moving user Home and Data.
Open to any and all ideas. Thx!
Tom

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