Permissions Trouble on a Shared Drive

Hello out there,
I have setup a Lacie Ethernet Big Disk on an ethernet network connected through a Netgear GS748T switch. I am asking people to use it as a shared backup-drive among other things. I wanted to do a complete backup of all the files on there friday to take off-site and it had a lot of trouble with permissions which were basicallly looking like this:
Name Privilege
(unknown) Read&Write
everyone No Access
When I log in as admin and try to change these permissions and then propogate them to the items inside, it appears to be happening but the new permissions don't stick.
This is just a temporary situation until we get our backup systems automated and done properly but in the meantime is there a way to set up permissions to be read and write for everyone on that disk?
Thanks for your help out there,
Andrew
ps The shared drive has a static ip address, name and password and the computers that save to it run the gamut of OS 10.4 to 10.6 and even some windows PCs

Is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me?
Have I posted in the wrong topic?
Do I smell?
Just trying to refresh my topic to see if there are any bites. Any info would be appreciated.
If you need to know more to answer, let me know.
Thanks,
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