Trying to connect IMac to Lion server (network account)

Hello,
     I have been trying to get this to work for a few weeks now. I have 2 Imacs and a Macbook, i am trying to login to a network account. I did the step by step to set up my server. I can screen share and see all the shared folders. I have a network user in the work group, and when i go to users on my macbook, and say join the server, i get host not found, but the server is active.
     My network is a DSL modem ( in bridge mode), then to a time capsule, that is hard wired to my server and one Imac, everthing else is wireless. My time capsule hands out the Ip's, and a DNS server is running on my lion server.
     Am I having a DNS problem, I am not sure what DNS has to go where starting with the time capsule. Should i have my time capsule just server one IP to my lion server and have the server hand out the other IP's over DHCP?
     My goal is to have network user account on my server, and no matter what computer you use, you can get the same information. Then set up mobile account for when my macbook is not on the network.
     I setup profile manager, and tried to push my settings to my account, but it also fails every time.
     I tried to follow apple's doc's on this but I have luck with some things, and now with others.
    I am running lion server on a mac mini server.
Thank you,
     Justin

HI,
my experience is as follows:
1. You have to setup a home folder for network/mobile users with Server.app
2. Create a group for network users with the workgroupmanagement.app from serveradmin tools
3. Create users with correct settings under "preferences" in workgroupmanagement.app, especially "rules"
4. Put the users in the group
4. Set the appropriate permissions to the home folder and share it over the network with server.app
After playing around I could login from a MacBook Pro and synchronize the users library and complete home folder. After testing and restarting the machines (Lion Server is on a Mac Mini) I could relogin with the network/mobile user.
My problem actually is, that I could not login from any other Mac. Everytime the system told me, that there is a fault with login.
Before I want to login with the network/moblle user on another MacBook i logout the user form the MacBook Pro.
No luck :-(
I test it with other users with same settings.
No luck :-(
I integrate the MacBooks in the Computer settings in the workgroupmanagement.app.
No luck :-(
I hope this thread give answers the next days, because I need a working synchronize and account management solution for different users and machines :-)
Cheers
Ishan

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