#1 - From what I understand Authentication works as follows.  The client
computer will first look to any local accounts that are set up on the
computer.  If it cannot find a local account it then looks at Directory
Services.  The service that the computer can authenticate against are [...]

I don't have Remote Desktop 3 yet -- I figure I'll need to as we add
more Mac users. From the Admin guide, I see that you need to install
it on whatever machines you want to manage.

#1 - Now, in my environment, we are already setup with openldap (ldap [...]