"Enclosing folder could not be modified" error

I work at a school and we've had an XServe for a while but only just got round to getting it set up (we were waiting for a new building to be built that went months behind schedule) and we can't get anything to stream. We're not sure why - and we get the same error message each time.
The error is "The file could not be created, because the enclosing folder could not be modified."
I've checked the folder permissions and yet everything seems like it should work, but as I'm new to XServe, I can't be sure.
Does anyone else have any ideas?
We're trying to make it so that staff and students within the school can access any of the videos on our XServe and stream them over the network. We've followed the instruction manual on how to create a hinted video and add them to the server but every time we try to apply the settings it throws up the error "The file could not be created, because the enclosing folder could not be modified."
This is why I thought it could be the permissions on the folders, but I've checked them and they seem to be okay - but there's obviously something simple that I'm blatantly missing?

Unfortunately not - yours is the first response I've had so far so we're still having the same problems. I just can't seem to figure it out at all.

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