Tristan Stahnke wrote: > > On 12/6/06, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I have a problem where a scheduled smb backup does not run. The home >> page for that machine shows 'Pings to king-graham have failed 109 >> consecutive times.' >> >> However, I can ping the machine from the command line and I can manually >> start an incremental backup after which the home page shows 'Pings to >> king-graham have succeeded 2 consecutive times.' >> > I had a similar problem on my home network when I set the DHCP flag in > the conf/hosts file to 1. Setting it to 0 seemed to fix that problem. > Since I don't have a DNS server on my home network I'm guessing it > wasn't able to properly query the router for DHCP information, but it > was still able to communicate to the client when I manually started a > backup. If you manually specify the host in /etc/hosts and can ping > it from the commandline, I believe setting the DHCP flag to 0 should > fix the problem. Granted if the IP address of king-graham changes > perhaps something else is amiss. Good luck. > Okay, I set the DHCP flag to 0, and that seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks for the help.
After checking the docs for the DHCP flag, I found that you should only set the flag to 1 if nmblookup (or gethostbyname) fails. In this case you need to specify a range of IP addresses and backuppc will query those specific addresses to request the hostname from those machines. Now that I understand this better, it's clear that I should have set the flag to 0. Thanks Tristan for pointing me in the right direction. -- Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
