We have been doing this for a couple of years now. For performance issues, we ended up going with the ExtremeZip solution.
But before that and currently, we use the golden triangle setup AD for authentication and profile paths and OD for configurations settings for Mobile Sync accounts.
For our setup on the AD side, we set their local account location, for windows roaming profiles and then set the drive mapping, for Mobile sync account location.
\\server\share\%username%\Windows
H: \\server\share\%username%
On the mac client, we bind to AD with these settings:
important to bind AD first as it is for authentication.
User Experience tab, check use UNC path, set your protocol and check Default user shell (default setting)
The rest is default. If we did not have an OD server to tell the apple computers to log in with a mobile sync account settings, all users would be a network account and create havok on our network.
We then bind to our open directory master for the preferences that are set, such as sync rules.
We set these up by using our AD groups.
We have been using this method for a few years with great ease.
