Paul wrote:
>
> # 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.
I'm not sure why that would happen. I have a machine here named
java-dev-2 and nmblookup from another machine finds it (both are
linux/Centos) - but my names are also in dns.
>
> 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.
>
If you control the dhcp server, you can configure it to always give the
same IP to the same ethernet MAC address to nail it down.
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