machine specific home folder settings

Is there any way to set machine specific home folder locations to get around some of the NFS vs. AFP home folder issues? I need to support both command line clients and mobile roaming clients. All machines are at least 10.5.5 and above.

Some background. I’ve been struggling for too long now to understand and get around the following issues:

– an AFP home directory is apparently unacceptable for a client that is accessed only via SSH (i.e. a command line compute server) because of the automount permissions issues (the first connected user can access their home directory but subsequent users cannot because the AFP automount was mounted in the first user’s name)

– NFS home directories seem to have broken the usefulness of PHD home sync in 10.5.6 as clients now sync everything all the time even if it didn’t change
– Apple prefers the use of AFP vs NFS for Mac-only environments like mine as stated in their user admin manual–so I can imagine that AFP is better supported

There are a host of other issues as well that I’m forgetting, but those are the major ones. So if I can set a specific home folder setting in OD for just my command line-only clients then leave AFP for everything else, that would rock.

Anybody have any advice. It is greatly appreciated.