Sharing user information between networked machines

I am trying to have one of my Macs act as a server of the netinfo database so that I do not have to replicate all the information on the other mac on the network. The hope is that I can create accounts on the one machine and also have it host the home directories When login in to the second mac, all the user info and home directory would come from the first machine.
From the research I have done, it seems like I need to make a parent domain on the "server" machine and then share that with the other machine. I am having trouble finding out how to create the parent domain.
I am running OS X (not server), but I think this should still be possible because of Unix under the hood.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Brian
Mac Pro dual G5   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

I thought i had a doc on this that i had bookmarked for future use but i cant find it and i think what may have been it is now a dead link!!!
And that *** because im going to have to do this at some point as well and now i have to figure it out.
IF you wanna ask the question over at MacGeekery.com go ahead... but if not ill get around to do ing so at somepoint. Either that or ill have to review the Netinfo pdf again and figure it out... and that would probably be a long process.

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