Looking forward to what others come up with as a solution here,
because I've struggled with this same problem. The simplest solution
would be to to add a reservation on your DHCP server so that the
laptop always gets the same IP address, and add that IP address to
your BackupPC's /etc/hosts file.
This solution isn't scalable for a building with a bunch of PCs, so
I'd love to hear what others think up.
Justin Best
503.906.7611
On Mar 6, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Paul wrote:
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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