Strange problems with ftp

Something strange happens...

I have found a strange behaviour of Linux when sending a file via FTP. I
am managing a web site, hosted on a WIndows machine, IIS server. I use
Linux at home, and send files to the server via Gftp or IglooFTP-Pro. The
problem is that if I have a file, say Pippo_Pippo.php, and later I send
pippo_pippo.php, when this file arrives to the server, it changes in
Pippo_Pippo.php, so, the old file Pippo_Pippo.php changes to the newly
sent file and pippo_pippo.php is lost. This is really strange for I didn't
notice this problem before a week ago, when I had correctly sent both
Pippo_Pippo.php and pippo_pippo.php, without problems. And still on the
server are files with the same name but different in letter case, like
Change_Message.php and change_message.php. But now, if I try to resend
them, they change.

Has anyone had this problem before?

Thanks in advance

Francesco

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Lampa Dario wrote:
> Something strange happens...
>
> I have found a strange behaviour of Linux when sending a file via FTP. I
> am managing a web site, hosted on a WIndows machine, IIS server. I use
> Linux at home, and send files to the server via Gftp or IglooFTP-Pro. The
> problem is that if I have a file, say Pippo_Pippo.php, and later I send
> pippo_pippo.php, when this file arrives to the server, it changes in
> Pippo_Pippo.php, so, the old file Pippo_Pippo.php changes to the newly
> sent file and pippo_pippo.php is lost.

You don't have a problem with Linux. You forget that, while Linux
filenames are case-sensitive, Microsoft Windows filenames are not.

You are seeing the effects of Microsoft Windows telling you that, to it,
the filenames "pippo_pippo.php" and "Pippo_Pippo.php" are the same. It
would not matter if your Linux box sent "PiPpO_pIpPo.PhP", /Windows/
would still make that name into "Pippo_Pippo.php".

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Lew Pitcher, IT Specialist, Corporate Technology Solutions,
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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> You don't have a problem with Linux. You forget that, while Linux
> filenames are case-sensitive, Microsoft Windows filenames are not.
>
> You are seeing the effects of Microsoft Windows telling you that, to it,
> the filenames "pippo_pippo.php" and "Pippo_Pippo.php" are the same. It
> would not matter if your Linux box sent "PiPpO_pIpPo.PhP", /Windows/ would
> still make that name into "Pippo_Pippo.php".

You are correct with this, but I forgot to say that I had both
pippo_pippo.php and Pippo_Pippo.php in the same directory on the Windows
webserver, without any problem. Infact my web site worked properly.
Suddenly these problems started to appear a week ago, and this was really
strange and not understandable. But the strange thing is that if I send
pippo_pippo.php and Pippo_Pippo.php by Windows, they arrive different and
stay different. I tried this with more computers with Linux installed, and
the result was the same, pippo_pippo.php and Pippo_Pippo.php arrived like
Pippo_Pippo.php, with SmartFTP on a WIndows machine they arribed like two
different file, pippo_pippo.php and Pippo_Pippo.php.

I am getting crazy.

Francesco