Will this configuration work? 10.5.3, OD, SMB

Question

I've been playing with this for 5 days, and have come up with nothing but frustration, I will be greatly appreciative of everyone that can help me pin down a solid way to make this work.
Environment:
New xserv 3x1TB drives-RAID5. DNS and DHCP is handled by another box, working properly. 30 Windows XP Pro sp2/sp3 machines. 10 MacBooks running 10.4.11/10.5.3
1. Install OS X 10.5.0 fresh
Two HDD volumes. xserv HDD(30gb), and Data(1.8TB)
Admin Account During Setup: tech
Hostname: server.sub.example.com
Advanced Mode.
2. Install 10.5.3 Combo Update.
Install any other Software updates.
3. Check service box to Enable OpenDirectory and SMB in ServerAdmin (I'll worry about AFP later, let's just get the XP clients working)
4. Change OD from standalone to OD Master in ServerAdmin
Leave all the default values.
Directory Administrator - diradmin
5. Promote SMB from standalone to PDC in ServerAdmin
Use the diradmin account when prompted.
Set domain name to sub.example.com
Leave all the default values.
6. Using Workgroup Manager, create groups in the LDAP/127.0.0.1 domain.
Also, assign groups as member of groups, as indicated by tabs.
Domain Users---- -default group-
--Administration
----Vice President
----Director of Operations
----Director of Admissions
----Director of Finance
----Registrar
----Director of Press
----Public Relations
----Director of Off-campus Studies
----Seminar Registrations
----Receptionist
----Office Assistant
----Assistant to Admissions
----Assistant to Finance
----Assistant to Registrar
----Director of Events
----T.R.E.
----C.E.O.
--Faculty
----President
----Provost
----Assistant Provost
----Mentor
--Development
----Development Officer
----Director of Development
7. Create Users in Workgroup manager.
Primary group is 20, OD Users.
Add to respective groups.
8. Setup Home directories on the Data volume.
Delete default shares, public, groups, users.
9. Copy files to Data volume
4 Directories, with complex subtrees, that need to become sharepoints.
These are copied from a linux file server via smb.
10. Disable roaming profiles
Add "logon path =" to the end of /etc/smb.conf
11. Join each XP Pro client to the sub.example.com domain
Authenticate with the diradmin user/pass.
This creates a computer account ending with $ in OD.
12. Login to XP clients with OD U/P.
I want the following at this point:
Only members of the Domain Users group to be able to login to a workstation.
Home directories mounted as H: for each user.
Ok, this is what I have so far, and a list of questions:
-How do I properly create a sharepoint for Home Directories on the Data Volume? ( these should of course be secure to each user.
-(How can I change the default template/skel? as I'm not using these for mac users at this point and don't need that structure...))
-How do I set that up in workgroup manager?
-I want to start out with the 4 sharepoints I'm copying over being R/W/Full Control by all users in the Domain Users Group, I'll restrict access later. What POSIX permissions, umask's, or ACL's do I need to set how for it to work properly with SMB continually?
-How do I allow my XP clients to be able to see the groups that I setup in WGM? (ie, to add to local groups on the machine, or permissions to print etc.)
-If I add a user to the Domain Admin group in WGM, will he have local administrator rights on the XP workstation? How do I get that to work?

Answer 1

-How do I properly create a sharepoint for Home Directories on the Data Volume? ( these should of course be secure to each user.
Just on that one point heres what I did, I have almost the same setup as you and wanted to get homes off the system drive. It works perfectly.:-
1) configure network automounts
Log in to Server Admin using local admin account.
Click 'File Sharing', then 'Share Points'
Select the destination folder (something like /Volumes/Data/Users )
Click enable automount
confirm AFP as the protocol
Select 'User home folders'
Click OK
Click Save
Authenticate as diradmin if asked during these steps
2) Configure users to use network homes
Run WGM
Click accounts and make sure you are using OD
Click Users and select all the required users
Click the home tab and select the users share point you just created
Click save.
Angus