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New Linux/Windows Problem
at the station, the programmers use a Windows XP box which uses the browser to connect to the Linux system to record their programs in .ogg for playback later
The recordings are stored on one Linux box and the software is on another
there folder on the Linux box that contains the recordings is mapped in Windows

someone thought that creating another folder of the same name, only in uppercase
would solve their problem (it didn't) but then there were 2 folders:
archive
ARCHIVE

on that Windows box they both contained no files or folders (they had plenty of each before)

so another genius deleted archive and this caused the files to 're-appear'
it also caused archive to re-appear

archive and ARCHIVE have the same contents

but no new recordings would appear in their designated folders after all this activity, even though the program reported that they were written to archive

another Windows box mapped to the same Linux drive turns out to have archive and ARCHIVE but only shows folders and files that were created after the above foolishness took place

so the question is, how to I synchronize (or whatever) all these connections and get back to just having archive

A
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New Here's where you start
You need to start with a basic understanding of what is
being presented to you and how to get to the underlying files
with no confusion about what is there.

Linux is case sensitive. You can have multiple directories
that all map to the same name under windows.

Samba (the software that lets Linux present drives to Windows
systems) needs to alter Linux file and directory names so they
appear as legal dos/windows file names. Something this alteration
can cause great confusion when you accidently duplicate the names.

So, you NEED to start on the Linux side to get to the underlying
file names to resolve it.

Do you have a command line login to the box?
Do you know how to mentally map the Windows share
to the underlying true Linux path?
Are the familier with the "ls" command for listing files?
Are you familler with the "less" command for looking into
the contents of files?

Anser the above, and give me directory and file names that
you are trying to resolve and we'll take it from there.
Expand Edited by crazy June 24, 2007, 12:39:21 PM EDT
New what he said
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New thanks
will keep you posted

A
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New update
the station manager got an email from the previous admin (the guy who set it all up) with a Windows solution that worked

I'm waiting until the guy from the local Linux users group can come in to do any in-depth exploration on the Debian side

A
Play I Some Music w/ Papa Andy
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Reggae, African and Caribbean Music
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