Network home best practice

We are setting up a new network of iMacs and laptops to use Network Home directories. All stations will be running 10.9 and the server will be 10.9 with Server.app 3.1. We have it currently set up, but the sync is not working. We keep having issues every 20 minutes or so and people are having issues saving permissions. We have them set up as SMB for homes. Would we do better with AFP? Any permissions that I might have wrong for the folder that the homes are being saved to?

In theory using SMB for Mavericks clients should be faster. Apple have had teething problems with SMB support in Mavericks and it is still not clear it is stable enough yet.
For laptops you would not want pure network home directories which are stored only on the server, you would want what at least used to be called portable home directories. With this the account and home directory are still stored on a server but are synced to the computer, this allows the computer to use the files even when it has no connection to the server e.g. when out of the office. When back in the office it will then sync the changes back to the server.
It used to be that you would define whether a computer was to use a pure network home directory or a portable home directory via managed preferences in Workgroup Manager. You would create a computer group to define those you wanted to have portable home directories, add the computer to the group and any user of that computer would then have their home directory synced as a portable home directory. Now with Mavericks you need to do the samething but you have to set it up via Profile Manager. You enrol the computer in to Profile Manager add it to a device group and set the device group to again sync the home directories.

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