Mac OS X SL Server for Home?

Im considering setting up a server at home for my family due to everyone uses each computer and all accounts are different per each machine. What I would like to do is setup a what I think is called a "Portable Home Directory" allowing each user (family member) to login to any mac they want and still have the same account be used rather then several accounts across the network.
My questions are:
Would a mini be sufficient?
Is there a SL Server 10 license available?
And would server allow me to do this? (one account across home network?)
What are the instructions to do this if a mac mini is sufficient?
Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry for double post not sure where this falls under
thanks
Estrates

Would a mac mini be sufficient for say 5-10 users/clients?
Likely yes, as the previous reply cites.
Do look for the newer Mac Mini as the processors are faster and (particularly) you have FireWire 800 as an expansion path for external storage (RAID, data archives, or otherwise).
Where it's an option, 802.11n 5 GHz dual-slot WiFi and Gigabit Ethernet are the way to go.
Get a decent Less-Interruptable Power Supply (LIPS) for the box, too.
Right now the load would be almost internet only.
That's almost always going to be limited by the bandwidth of the box. Most anything in the recent arsenal of computers is going to be able to feed low- to moderate-range Internet connections just fine, and with plenty of headroom. (But then an internet connection can also be anything from, say, a 512 Kb DSL link to a seriously-fast SONET. And a Mini might have a little trouble keeping a SONET busy.)
And start reading the manuals. Running a server requires substantially more thought than running a client, and somewhat more effort over time to maintain it.

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I heavily use iTunes (190 GB), iPhoto (120 GB) and iMovie (30 GB, but want to do more when I get time). Additionally, I store lots of old videos on circa 10 portable hard drives (1 TB each), which I access occasionally.
The family use all this content and we currently have a MacBook Pro and are considering buying a new computer - either a new MacBook Pro or an iMac. We also have iPads, iPhones etc and a Time Capsule.
[…] We want all our music and pictures in single master libraries that we can all access and update.
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