Mobile accounts? How?

A couple of months ago, I created a small server for my family, using a 2011 Mac Mini Server with Snow Leopard server software. The clients are :
One iMac with Snow Leopard
One MacBook with Snow Leopard
One iPhone 4
One iPhone 3GS
I have set up all family members as users on the server. My iMac Calendar and Address Book synchronize fine with my iPhone 4. I can receive and send emails from my iMac using the email accounts I created on the server.
The MacBook hasn't been set up yet to do the same, since it is used mainly by my wife who has no requirements for calendar or address book synching. However, I also use the MacBook when I travel so what I would like to do is this:
I would like to have all my iMac home folder (let's say it is /Users/John) stored and synchronized with my Mac Server home folder (/Network/Servers/family.myserver.com/Users/john). In that way, I'll have an additional backup of my user files on the server. I would also like to have the server-based user home folder, synchronize with my MacBook user home folder, whenever I use that account on the Macbook, so that when I travel I can have all my documents with me.
Now, I spend some time yesterday googling the term "mobile accounts" which is what I assume I have to use, but I didn''t manage to find anything (like a step-by-step guide) on how to do that.
So far, I can log in my server account just fine, and I can connect to my user folder on the server, using the "Finder/Go to Server" command. It opens the server volume and I can access it as if it were another volume of my iMac. But I do not want to manually copy files from my iMac home folder to the server folder, I would prefer if that was done automagically.
How can I do that?
Any help (liniks to Apple documents or whatever) would be greatly appreciated. The only document I have found, which deals with this matter is referring to Server 10.4, I am running 10.6.7.
Many thanks

Hi John,
You have two options that I know of for the Macs:
1. One option is MobileMe, soon to be called iCloud. There you will have more than enough to handle your needs, maybe combined with option two and then utilize a sync program like FolderSync.
2. You can utilize the sync app mentioned in the first option to sync to your server.
3. Also take a look at page 217 of the Mac OS X Server - User Management - Version 10.6 Snow Leopard-guide for a step-by-step guide dealing with the creation of Mobile Accounts.
For the iPhones, you can use the iphone configuration utility to make them team up with your network in ways you can't do manually.
HTH,
Mark

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