On 05/07 07:31 , Rob Munsch wrote: > I'm reading about the hosts file, adding hosts, and nmblookup and > getting a sinking feeling... I have over 100 PCs here with various > manufacturer-default names (HP1337ROFL etc) and no naming scheme > whatsoever. Can i get away with a
>From the standpoint of experience; my advice is: - use static DHCP assignments to control what IP address each host gets -- you can also use this to keep unauthorized hosts from being attached to your network... which is a good thing to do, if you can exercise that much control without the boss coming down on you. - Make DNS entries for each host. That way you're not relying on NMB names to find your hosts. NMB is an awful system, and very unreliable in my experience. - Don't use 'DHCP' entries in your backuppc hosts file. Just rely on DNS. Yes, this is more work at first. Believe me, it's worth it. Things will be more reliable, and *far* easier to troubleshoot. I'm a little biased because I'm used to doing this on remote networks where I have never physically seen most of the computers involved, let alone been close enough to touch them. YMMV. Don't forget to back up your own backuppc configuration. I would suggest that you make it uncompressed as well, so when things do go wrong, you don't need backuppc in order to recover your backuppc configuration files that tell you how to read your backuppc archives. :) -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
