Hosts with a dash in the name are not resolved by nmb-lookup. I ended up
putting reserved addresses in my local DHCP server so that such
workstations always receive a "known" ip when on my network, then made a
corresponding entry in /etc/hosts on the backuppc server.
- Paul
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 15:10 +0200, Wayne Gemmell wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 April 2008 17:29:42 Les Mikesell wrote:
> > kanti wrote:
> > > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root scn-ws9 /usr/bin/rsync --server
<snip>
> I have a very similar problem to Kanti so I'm going to finish where he left
> off. The command is run pointing to a dhcp client. The nmblookup works but
> the rsync command above fails because the IP address isn't passed from the
> lookup to ssh. Do I then tell my server to do a nmblookup when searching for
> the host name?
>
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