brien dieterle wrote: > Has anyone tried using mdns//bonjour for clients? Macs have it enabled > by default, most linux distros have it, although not enabled, and you > can download it for Windows... Then you wouldn't have to do anything > special; they'd be normal dns lookups-- fred.local, etc.
That's a local-lan only thing, more or less like netbios broadcasts so it won't help if you need to cross routers. My opinion is that anything that has data worth backing up should have a static address, but that isn't always possible to arrange especially for laptops. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/