Disk Permissions Problem on External HD Accessed Wirelessly

Question

Hello,
I recently purchased a LaCinema Connect MiniHD and have been using it with a Western Digital 750Gb drive (formatted Mac OS Case Sensitive, non-journaled). I also recently bought a D-Link DWA-125 wifi dongle to use with the LaCinema.
I can access and read/write to the drive without problem when it connected via USB to my computer or to my wife's laptop. However, when I try to trasnfer to it wirelessly over the network (i.e. when the drive is connected to the LaCinema which, in turn, is on the network) I receive error messages when I attempt to transfer files to certain folders (including the "root" folder). What is interesting is that the folders that I can transfer to appear to be ones that were created on my old work computer, with an earlier OS version (definitely not Snow Leopard).
I suspect that I have some sort of permissions problem, but "Repair Permissions" is not available to me for this drive in Disk Utility.
I have plugged in the drive into my computer and have reset the permissions so that the "owner", "staff", and "everyone" are able to read and write for all folders and sub-folders, but it has not solved the problem.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Graeme.

Answer 1

Eric,
I, too, apologize for the delay in posting. I have been away from the discussions for a rather extended period.
Well, any NTFS formatted volume will only be accessible to you as read only. No, this is not something new, but has always been the case. To make matters worse, I have heard that Windows no longer provides any way to create a FAT-32 volume; one must use OS X to format the volume or use a third-party application in Windows. This information may be incorrect, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is true (we're talking about Microsoft, here).
If you can copy any data on this drive to some other location, then use Disk Utility to format it as FAT-32, the data can then be copied back and it can be used to transport the data cross-platform, with read/write access on both ends. Is this a possibility for you?
Scott