Lightroom 3.6 can't export to a directory on READYNAS

I have Lightroom 3.6. I also have a lot of images. So I got a READYNAS RNDU4000 disk array (RAID) with 4 disks each of 2 TB. My computer is running Windows XP Professional SP3. It mounts the RAID array as a network drive just fine. Now suppose I have some new images. I make a new folder on the RAID array, lets say it is called "WildAnimalPark" and copy the images in there. I start up Lightroom, and choose Import Files, and point it at WildAniamalPark, and it imports the images just fine, and lets me make adjustments. (The Lightroom catalog is in my F drive, a hard drive on my computer.) Now I want to export smaller jpegs suitable for web or e-mail. So I go to File->Export. I tell it to export the images to "Same folder as original photo", and check "Put in Subfolder" and name the subfolder "email". Farther down I ask for the images to be scaled to 800 pixels on the long edge and to limit the file size to 125K. (I doubt these details matter.) When I click "export", it appears like it is going to work. You can see the progress bar move across as it makes the files. But then I get an dialog box that says, "Some export operations were not performed. The file could not be written," followed by a list of off the files it should have written. When I look it the original directory, I see that it has created the subfolder "email" (so it really can write to the RAID array), but it is empty.
This makes my RAID array essentially useless. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong, or how I can work around this probelm?
I should add that it works perfectly if I put the directory on a local hard drive.
Thank you,
--DMJ002

Everything works perfect on my system, which is XP Pro SP3 and ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID] and RAIDiator 4.1.6 [1.00a043].
I never touch the OS XP folder.file permissions. And as I said yesterday, all I have is the FrontView permissions correct. Whether I export to the ReadyNas subdirectory including update Catalogue or not, the subdirectory is created and the export file physically exists.
The only nag I have is after removing my (test) catalogue image and (test) catalogue folder, although the image is physically deleted the folder is left on my drive. I would call it an LR3 bug, but Adobe might think otherwise. I know for a fact this does create problems if your try to create another subfolder with the same name at a later date. It happened to me a while back. Hey, the light just turned on! I reckon this is your route to check. Even though T:\WindAnimalPark\email folder does not exist in your catalogue at the start of this thread, was it exisiting physically ? If yes, then this is probably the issue. Delete \email folder from your disk firstly before making an export to it even if it is not showing in Catalogue.

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