Greetings.
I have set up backuppc on a Linux box, and it is generally working. The
box is ubuntu 7.10 with updates applied to date, and the Samba package
installed.
However, any computer on my network that has a dash in the netbios name,
such as "my-laptop", will fail to resolve. If I type
# nmblookup my-laptop
it will return no entries.
If I do the same for a host with no dash, e.g. "mylaptop", it works
fine, as does backuppc.
Is there any magic (besides renaming the machines, which is not possible
since several are laptops owned by outside entities who set & control
the names) to get backuppc to resolve the names?
I can simply "hardcode" the IP address in the /etc/hosts file, but they
are all DHCP clients so this is a temporary fix at best.
I tried checking the DHCP box in the host table, and I get an error that
says:
"my-laptop is a DHCP host, and I don't know its IP address. I
checked the netbios name of 127.0.1.1, and found that the machine is not
my-laptop."
I don't know where 127.0.1.1 is from - that's not my subnet. I have
configured the DHCP range to match my DHCP server settings, but this is
all I get.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks -
- Paul
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