yes, expounded upon :) --- my wife gets on my case for answering the question she asked rather than what she meant!
the facility to detect a machine by name rather than just IP works well. I would just try it first. Don't put the laptop in your /etc/hosts files, and see it you can get to it from the server using nmblookup. (I forget the full syntax right now, sorry) On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 11:30 +0200, Sébastien Barthélemy wrote: > Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 09:54 -0500, Jack Coats a écrit : > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 16:41 +0200, Sébastien Barthélemy wrote: > > > Hello everybody. > > > > > > I use backuppc at home to backup 4 computers, including a laptop. All of > > > them are on a private network behind a wireless router (provided by my > > > ISP). The laptop can be connected by wire (with IP 192.168.15.5) or by > > > wifi (with IP 192.168.15.6). > > > > > > I would like backuppc to backup the laptop when it is on the network, > > > whatever it is by wire or wifi. > > > > > > Is it possible ? > > > > > > Let's also say that I have no DNS on the private network, I resolve > > > names through /etc/hosts > > > > The short answer is, yes. > > ok. Thanks Jack ! > > The next (short) question is how ? > > cheers > > Sebastien > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
