SMB sharing, accessing files on my mac from windows xp

Hey, I have my mac, 10.5.1, sharing a folder in my documents folder using SMB. I access it from my windows machine and some of the files are locked and cannot be accessed. How can i fix that? When i use ls -l it shows up the files but some don't have rwx on all the permissions. also there is a + or @ sign after most of them, what is that? Any one know how to make it so my xp machine can read and write files back to my mac using smb? thanks

It's hard to go further without getting into the nitty gritty of your network. Have you considered setting up a unique user as the owner of the files you need to share, and actually have the Windows users sign on to the Mac as that user? Also, only the 'share' user would manipulate the files from the Mac side.

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