User Account Login Offsite

Hi,
I'm new to managing servers. I am looking at setting up an imac with mac os x server (snow leopard).
If i was to configure multiple computers (laptops & desktops) to login with network accounts. What is the protocol for laptops when offsite? if they have an internet conenction when offsite can they login to their network accounts? If not can you configure a sync of their local & network home directories?
Thanks in advance

Yes, this is entirely possible - it's called Mobile home directories. Users log in with a cached copy of their account credentials, and whenever their client is in reach of the server they automatically update and sync home directory data.
It's covered at length in chapter 8 of the Mac OS X Server User Management manual.

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{edited}

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Help needed,
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