Scripting file copy to windows server

Hi all,
We need the ability to copy files from the Mac G5's running 10.4.x to a windows based server (2003) across our LAN. Looked at scripting Terminal but it does not seem to support apple script the way I would like - ie copy /file to //server.
The reason we need to do the copy like this is to prevent resource forks and the .ds_store from coping as well, more of a unix copy. These hidden files are really messing up the system we are coping to (SQL DB).
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Bill

I don't know enough about Visual Basic to feel
competant to run a script to do this. I disagree with
the statement that there is "nothing to fix" however.
These dot files litter our Windows server and even
with Blue Harvest running I am constantly having to
use the Server Management Console to close these dot
files so that our real files can be moved, copied, or
deleted because when the server sees these as open it
sees the real file as open even when it isn't.
I had the option of FSM (File Services for Macintosh)
with the server, but we have thousands of files that
would have to revert back to 31 character filenames.
Rather than do that, I chose to stick with the SMB
protocol. It's a right pain getting it to work and
then we have the dot files on top of it. It wouldn't
be an issue with a Mac server, but I don't have one.
So, in my view Apple still has not fixed this.
I'm glad I asked the question though, because I made
the assumption that Tiger fixed this. Since it hasn't
I have yet another reason to stay in Panther.
And what happens with the files that still need resource forks? They're are still a Mac applications out there that make use of metadata. How are you going to selectively decide which metadata to preserve? Have ever had to help a user whose files suddenly turned into "unix executable" files after copying them to a server? You'll quickly realize that there are instances when metadata must be preserved.

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