Steps to Setup Mobile Homes Properly

I have DNS and Open Directory working it appears without issue, however I'm having some problems setting up Mobile Home users now. When I go into the Workgroup Manager, create a new users and assign their home to an afp path and give it a local folder path as well, it doesn't appear to create the path as it says that it will. Then, when I try to login from another computer by simply entering the username and password it says that the home cannot be located or something of that nature. I'm wondering if I need to create an account somehow similarly as one would with an Active Directory setup with remote home directories such. I'm sure I'm missing some steps. Could someone please advise as to the proper procedure to make Mobile Homes and so forth work properly?