samba - Sep 2003 - Accessing files on Interwoven TeamSite SMB share causing modification

Samba: Version 2.2.3a-12 for Debian

We use the Interwoven TeamSite CMS software here, and in all our environments
from development through production, access files on the SMB share provided by
TeamSite.  Most of our development machines are Windows 2000/XP systems, but
some are Linux, and all our other environments are purely Linux.  The Linux
machines all mount the share with smbfs.

Under Linux, accessing (using cat, cp, etc) any files on share cause TeamSite to
think the file has been modified.  TeamSite keeps a "production"
version of all files in an area called "staging", and developers make
changes in a "workarea".  A file has been "modified" if it
is somehow different than the file in staging.  Somehow, when I cat (or cp, or
anything that reads the file) a file in the mounted workarea, TeamSite thinks it
has been modified.

Under Windows, files on the share can be read freely without TeamSite indicating
that they have been modified.

I've tried mounting under Linux with the "noatime" option, but it
has no effect.

Using the "get" command in smbclient does not mark the file as
modified.

Any suggestions on how to make it not "modify" a file when reading via
smbfs?