OD Setup: Non-Shared, or Provide Info?

[pismo]

Hey All,
I’m setting up OSX 10.2.8 Server on my old Blue & White.
I’m not sure whether to setup the box (in Open Directory Assistant) for “Not Shared Local Directory”, or “Provide Info to Other Computers”.
To be clear, I DO understand what each option is for, but I’m not sure of the following scanario:
If I set it up as Non Shared Local Directory, I simply have given myself (and anyone else I create an account for) an account that they can login to on the server.
If I set it up as Provide…etc, I can then administer things more centrally and provide for everyone to login to the server from any computer. What I guess I want to know is, can I set it up during the assistant, as Non Shared, then simply create the same users in the “At” pop up menu as “/Network/Root, instead of the default of “Local”, and provide them the same possiblities of logging in from any computer, as if I set it up that way to begin with? For some reason, this is confusing the !@#$%* out of me.
I could be wrong, but I THOUGHT my instructor (just took the OSX Server Essentials course) said that you can set it up as “Provide Info…”, etc., then simply change the “At” popup menu to Local, instead of the other way around, where one sets it up as “Local”, then, if they want to create a Network account, change the “At” popup menu to /NetInfo/root.
Thanks for any clarity on the subject!!

Pismo

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