Symbolic links on samba network drives broken?

Note: I first posted this in Apple.com > Support > Discussions > Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard > Using Mac OS X Leopard where it was suggested I post here. In my readings it looks like 10.6 may solve some of this but I'm not sure.
I'm seeing the following sort of behaviour on all of the macs I have tested in the following configuration:
Network file server:
Solaris 10
samba 3.4.2
Macs:
Leopard 10.5.6
Connect to exported folders via smb in finder "connect to server". In the examples below abc123 is a remote folder.
Open terminal and try the following tests:
1. Attempting to remove a symbolic link fails.
* cd /Volumes/abc123/tmp
* touch foo
* ln -s foo .bar # this works
* rm .bar # fails with no message
* rm foo # succeeds
* rm .bar # fails with no message
If the symbolic link is to a socket then you at least get a message when rm fails ("rm: .parentlock: No such file or directory" as an example for a link created on the remote drive by Thunderbird or Firefox).
2. Removing linked file removes unlinked file??
* touch foo
* ln -s foo bart
* touch ._bart
* ls -la # observe that ._bart exists
* rm bart
* ls -la # observe that bart still exists, but that ._bart is gone!!!
3. Removing linked file does not work.
* ln -s bart ._bart
* rm bart # fails
4. Hard links do not delete either.
* touch foo
* ln foo ._bart
* rm foo
* ln -s bar ._bart # ln: ._bart: File exists
* rm ._bart # rm: ._bart: No such file or directory
5. Symbolic links are copied instead of the file contents.
* touch foo
* ln -s foo ._blaht
* cp ._blaht /tmp
and observe that, in /tmp, you have "._blaht -> foo" instead of the actual file.
So can anyone else reproduce any of the above problems? In my limited searching for samba related problems I did not see any posting about this type of situation. Also, everything works just fine on local drives.

Depending on the filesystem, Mac OS X creates ._foo files when you create a foo file, so you'll probably have to live with that. For example, for each file on my FAT32-formatted USB flash drive there is a ._xxx file. Others may be able to explain what these things are. I'm pretty sure they contain file metadata, perhaps like .DS_Store files created for other file systems.

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