Sync my local folders to the network home folder?

HI, I use the Workgroup manager to create a new user and then under the "Home" tab to create a "HOme" for that new user. When I save a file onto that new user's local desktop; I want that new files to be copied to the user's home folder's desktop. How can I do that?
When I logon the Macbook with the new user's logon, I can see the home folders (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Library, Movies, Musics, ...etc) there on the server with a "no access red sign" and just no automatically sync to those folders. What do I miss out here?
Can anyone help? I want the users to be able to sync all the files from their Macbook to their home folders on the Xserve once they shutdown.

So you are saying that on the server you see red circles on the folders on the server right?
That would be correct because the local admin on the server does not have access to them. That is how it is susposed to work. If you would like to have access to those folders you can add the local admin to the ACL of the users folder and then propigate it down to the rest of the folders. You can do that in server admin.
You will then be able to see if the data is getting to the folders on the server.

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A friend of mine which does support a Mac Mini Server 10.6.8 in a school does have the problem, that he is able to access the networked home folder of users as long as the client system is 10.5.x or newer, but if he tries to access the very same home folders from systems with 10.3.x or 10.4.x, he is not able to login.
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Thanks for the info Tony.
Just for other people who are looking for answers to this problem I'll give my specifics.
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dsquery user -name %UserNameX% | dsmod user -hmdrv F -hmdir \\filer\$username$
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BCHeller wrote:
There are two folders in the My Music folder dedicated to iTunes music:
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No idea what this folder is. Sounds like it is something you created & named.
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