Just a note. I think the original poster was *mounting* the Win2K box from Linux. As such, talking about Cygwin's attempts to use backup operators shouldn't help at all - as that's referring to running rsync *server* under Windows - it won't have any affect on how SMB passes locks to the SMB client...
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