Command line to remove duplicate files?

I have a Fedora 6 system and want to remove some duplicate files. I have
about 1,500 jpg images on my XP machine on the LAN and setup the directory
containing the photos as a share, then mounted it in Linux with cifs, so
now I can use Linux tools on the directory. I heard of a program called
fdupes and it seemed like the perfect thing so I installed it and tried it
out. It worked great and found all duplicates but did not remove the dupes.
Instead I got asked for every set of dupes, which one I want to keep and
they would list the found dupes. I enter 1 to save the first one and then
on to question 2 for the next set, etc. There are over a hundred dupes in
this directory and to have to answer what one for each dupe is really time
consuming and there has to be a better way to do this. Maybe automating the
process with a shell script or a different approach altogether, I need your
help to figure this out. Answering 1 to fdupes did not delete the duplicate
files though, they still remain. This could be the way the permissions are
set for the cifs mount, permissions are such:

[ohmster@ohmster test]$ ls -la KatharinaTisch072*
-rw-r--r-- 1 ohmster ohmster 162726 Mar 11 16:46 KatharinaTisch072(1).jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 ohmster ohmster 162726 Mar 11 16:46 KatharinaTisch072.jpg
[ohmster@ohmster test]$

rw, r, r, maybe I need to chmod them all to writable but still fdupes will
ask me hundreds of questions for each duplicate found. All I want is one
copy of the file and am not to particular which one it is. I would rather
have the plane one ending in 072.jpg rather than 072(1).jpg or 072_0.jpg
but it is not a very big deal.

Can anybody show me an automated method to remove dupes from thousands of
files in a directory or two please?

Thanks.

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