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I'm running Samba 3.32 on my linux server to share files with the windows computers on the network. My problem is that windows doesn't support some special characters in filenames, like ' : ', that linux has no problem with. So something (not sure if it's Samba or windows) is mangling directory/file names containing that character into 8.3 names, which makes it very difficult

Hi, Currently i'm trying to make a patch for the gentoo-emerge-system which uses rsync to update its portage-tree. It uses various rsync-server around the world using DNS-round-robin to distribute among them. Those servers should respond quite fast normally, but sometimes one server is down (or just drops connection-attemps from a client). In such cases it takes rsync a very long time

I''ve encountered a perplexing problem whilst following along the demo app in the "Agile Web Development with Rails" book. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is a brief time line of my tale of woe:- 0. Been programming (business apps) and designing/building DBs for two decades - but new to both Ruby and Rails (so I apologise in advance if I''ve made some