
Also the character encoding of some of the folders seems to be getting mangled, see the dot's under the numbers in the name. If I correct the folder name back to normal it seemingly reverts to "bunga" after someone using Mac OS accesses it again using smb://

A few google searches haven't been that enlightening so far.
Anyone have any idea what do I need to change on either the Windows 2003 server or on the Mac OS X machines to prevent the extra hidden (.DS_Store and ._xyz) files from being created in network shares and to stop the folder name corruption issue?