[Samba] Wierd Problem, appears Samba related perhaps?

[smw]

Hello,

I'm relatively new to Samba, but have it set up on my RedHat 7.3 system, and
it's running great.  Except for one thing, and I'm not sure if this is a
Samba
problem or a problem with my machines.

What the problems appears is that when I'm copying or moving images (jpegs,
bmps are the only two I've tried so far) from both my laptop and my desktop
(both Win2k mahcines), the images copy fine, but there's also two additional
files created.  One of them contains some sort of binary data in it, the
other is
a zero byte file.  They both start out with the same name is the image, then
there's a : and a bunch of characters following it, followed by a :$DATA.
(See
below for a sample.)

After speaking with one of the IT guys I work with, he seemed to think that
I
may have been infected with a virus.  I'm running Norton AV on both of my
desktop and laptop machines, and ran scans to be sure.  There is no virus.
And it's only image files that this is happening with.

Anyways, here's the snippet:

[root at blackhole pub]# ls new/bmps
6186-liquidfire.bmp
6186-liquidfire.bmp:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
6186-liquidfire.bmp:?Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc:$DATA
a_place_for_eternal_rest_1600.bmp
a_place_for_eternal_rest_1600.bmp:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DA
TA
a_place_for_eternal_rest_1600.bmp:?Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc:$DATA
fire-35.bmp
fire-35.bmp:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
fire-35.bmp:?Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc:$DATA
GC-butterfly II1280x960.bmp
GC-butterfly II1280x960.bmp:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
GC-butterfly II1280x960.bmp:?Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc:$DATA
wapache4.bmp
wapache4.bmp:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
wapache4.bmp:?Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc:$DATA
[root at blackhole pub]#


Anyone have any idea  what's going on?  I'm completely baffled by it.  It
appears that
the one file with the {} and a bunch of characters in it appears to be a
machine ID of
some sort (just a guess), but I'm not sure why it's creating then.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
Scott M Wrosch
Samba and Linux "noob"