dan wrote:
> my priority is making sure that these laptops are backed up and the data is
> safe. the people that are running the laptops dont have that same priority
> and will not do the backups. i need to get these backups done when they are
> on the local network. right now it does work but only on the hourly
> wakeups. also, some machines fail to be discovered by nmblookup. even with
> the software firewall turned off, some machines arent found by nmblookup.
> you almost just need to set samba up as a WINS server and add that to the
> DHCP settings so nmblookup can find everyone.
Windows firewalling is a recent addition by Microsoft. If you control
the LAN, configure the DHCP server to always hand out the same IP
address to each machine based on the MAC address, then put the machines
in DNS so you don't have a problem discovering them. You still need to
open the firewall to ping and file sharing or rsync, though.
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Les Mikesell
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