Linux - OS X integration problems:
 

> > >
> > > We are trying to integrate OS X into a Linux back end and having
> > > problems.
> > >
> > > When copying files to or from the Linux server with either SMB or AFP
> > > at some point doing the copy process there will be an error -50. This
> > > is a consistent problem. The files that are copied before the error
> > > occurs will typically be corrupt, have a zero K file size or lose
> > > their format, i.e. a jpg will look like a text file.
> > >
> > > Files copied from the OS 9 to Linux are not all visible to the OS X
> > > computer. For example if you copy a "folder" that contains files from
> > > OS 9 to Linux, at times several of those files will be missing. If
> > > you remove and recopy the folder different files will be missing from
> > > the folder.
> > >
> > > Apple's technical support will not acknowledge this problem. Their
> > > solution is to purchase an OS X server.
> > >
> > > Based on Goggle search returns, I have tried changing the Linux file
> > > system from ext3 to ext2. That did not resolve the problem.
> > >
> > > Connecting workstations to the Linux server via NFS does work without
> > > error but I would prefer not to do this as this would require server
> > > level administration / configurations on each workstation. I thought
> > > it might be better to use a OS X "server" to connect to the Linux
> > > server via NFS.
> > >
> > > Due in part to this problem, I am trying to move away from AFP and
> > > solely to SMB. My goal here is to use an OS X computer to "share"
> > > Linux NFS mounted volumes to other OS X computers via Samba. I am
> > > having one problem with the OS X Samba server, the SMB client is able
> > > to create directories on a Samba share but unable to create or copy
> > > files. When attempting to copy file "foo" to the share the error code
> > > is, "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have
> > > sufficient privileges for "foo". When trying to copy a directory that
> > > contains files to the share the error code is, "The operation cannot
> > > be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for
> > > ".DS_Store".

does this email you've pasted not even come with a please or thankyou?

Whoever is doing this is, pardon me, insane. If you want to share files between UNIX machines, you should be using NFS. The excuse of:
is silly. You need to have permissions to do the same thing with other file "sharing" techniques like samba. Just set up an exportfs from the Linux server, and tell all the OS X machines to mount the filesystem via NFS. It's not difficult, and it's a hell of a lot more robust than the SMB garbage being used by samba (remember, samba is designed to interface UNIX and windows because windows doesn't know how to deal with a real network filesystem).
You already have a solution that, "works without error". Use it!

My $0.02