User Profiles across multiple hosts

I have three Macs:
iMac 27
MBPr13
MBA13
All running OSX Mavericks 10.9.4.
We also run a home network with a LaCie 5BigPro 10TB NAS. All my user profiles on the hosts are set up for administrator privileges.
Lately, we have had trouble with document files on the NAS not able to be opened on certain hosts because of a lack of user privileges. This could be complex, but I wanted to start with a simple question, that is can I make it so my own user profile on each of three hosts is recognised by OSX as the same user profile (and therefore has the same priviliges)? Like it is a single, roaming profile such as what you find on many enterprise networks...would this require some level of central domain-based authentication engine? Or are these features native to OSX? Or do I need to run OSX server to achieve this functionality?
Cheers.

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
How is everything going on?
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