Synching between samba directory and tgz archive

[beck0]

Please forgive me, I'm a bloody beginner with linux. I only learned that samba can be used to share directories with Windows and so I tried to update some files in a linux virtual machine (VMware) with the contents of a tgz file.
Compare Directory works fine but Synchronize Directories does not show the files inside the archive, whether they're never or older.
I have the tgz archive on one side (e.g. c:\DOCUME~1\beck0\LOCALS~1\Temp\_tc0\TWiki-4.2.3.tar\pub\_default ) and the linux directory on the other side (e.g. \\Twiki-vm\root\home\httpd\twiki\pub\_default ) but the compare operation in Synchronize Directories always shows all files from linux to be copied to the other side, which appears empty.

[ghisler(Author)]

tgz is actually one archive inside another. Try to go inside, then inside the TAR, and then try to synchronize.