Have you thought about going this way? We implement this setup in schools using multiple systems. We just use LDAP and NFS to authenticate and mount home files. File permissions get passed via LDAP.
First we set up Open Directory / LDAP with the homes set to NFS and allow it to export it to our LTSP servers. Just use Workgroup manager and set your accounts just as you would for any other mac configuration including login as /bin/bash.
Once you have your accounts set up on the Mac server, configure your linux boxes to authenticate to an LDAP server. Each flavor of linux is a little different, but you’ll need to configure your search base (dc=example,dc=com), the uri ldap (which points to your server), and set your bind policy=soft. Just follow a cookbook for setting up a LDAP client (should be able to google). After you do this you should be able to log in but it should also give you a message about home folders. Some will show you the path that is expected.
Next, mount your NFS homefiles onto you linux box via fstab. In Ubuntu, you’ll need to install nfs-common and a couple of other things. For example: the homefiles (called Student_home) are exported on /Network/Servers/my.example.com/Student_home.
Now you should be able to log in to your linux box and mount your home files automatically.
SMB will handle the homefiles when they authenticate via windoze.
Hope this helps.
Nathan
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