Server Admin sharing yellow bar!!!!

Hi,
I have several iMacs in a classroom, all my users have accounts in my xserve, I have set up sharing folders and they all mount fine when logged as a local user and then connect to server via Go>Connect to server.
how can I make the iMacs to boot when users log on to them using their accounts set in the xserve? I would like my users to use the applications on the local hard drive, but the rest is from their home directories (desktop, document...) is this netboot? is this a good way to do it?
the Directory Utility is set as should in the iMac.
kit: recent iMac and recent Xserve all with OX Leopard (client and server)
Cheers
Jas

You could just bind the computers to the server and have them log in to the server. Then make a folder on there desktop thats really an alias on the server. This would make them feel like there saving locally but not.

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