Permissions problems with Shared files

In my office of two users I have set up file sharing between two Macs, one is is running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and the other (a PPC machine) is running 10.5.8 (The Leopard Machine was migrated over from a Tiger Machine by doing a fresh install of Leopard and then using Migration Assistant to move the user account off of the Tiger Machine).
Occasionally, I need to send files to the Leopard Mac from my Snow Leopard machine, so I connect to the other Mac's Shared folder, navigate to the Drop Box, and pop the file in.
Looking at the file on the other machine, it comes through as Read Only, ie. if I Get Info on it, it says 'you have custom access' and lists users as Nobody: Read Only; (Unknown): Read Only and Everybody: Read Only. These permission remain like this once the file is copied or moved out of the Drop Box.
I've had a look at the Sharing Prefs on both machines and they are set up to have the admin account as Read and Write and Everyone as Read Only - the Drop box is then set to have the admin account as Read and write and Everyone as Write Only (Drop Box).
The permissions problems happen in either direction, whether copying from machine A to machine B or vice versa.
Can someone help me fix this.
Thanks

Easybourne wrote:
Thanks for the tip. Once the other user vacated their Mac last night I ran the commands but...
Unfortunately, I still seem to be having issues with files being 'read only' on the Leopard machine. If I send a file from the Snow Leopard Mac to the Leopard Mac's drop box, it shows up with what looks like read/write access for 'nobody', 'everyone' and 'unknown user', but if I open the file, work on it and try to save via an app's save dialog, it says the file is Read-only. In the words of t'internet: W T F?
I ran your commands on the Snow Leopard machine too, and curiously, if I send a file from the Leopard machine to the Snow's Drop box, I CAN read and write to the file.
One thing that troubles me is that My User name is now listed TWICE in the list of permissions I get (My User Name): Custom Access and (My User Name) Read/Write. That seems odd.
no, that's normal. this happens because of the ACLs.
Something similar is happening on the Leopard machine too.
I created a fresh user account on my Snow Leopard Machine to see what the default permissions should be and I get other entries in the permissions list that aren't present on either of the two Machine's main user accounts. Users such as 'Staff', for example. Frankly, I'm lost.
I've read somewhere that there could be permissions problems on machines where user accounts have been upgraded from Tiger to Leopard as is the case with one of the machines in question.
yes, that could be. we can fix that if necessary.
I've also read that I can do a complete reset of ACLs by using the Reset Password utility on the Leopard installer DVD. Would this be worth a go, and could it cause more problems if it doesn't work?
yes, you can try resettings ACLs on the leopard machine using the leopard install disk. however, the acl reset utility on the leopard disk is somewhat buggy and sets wrong groups on everything it touches. therefore after you are done with it, reboot normally and run the following terminal command
sudo chown -R `id -un`:`id -gn` ~
you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see). that's normal.
If you can bear it, could you please help me some more. Thanks very much.
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