Wayne Gemmell wrote: > On Monday 14 April 2008 15:46:37 Paul Horn wrote: >> 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. >> > > I knew it wasn't a great plan hijacking another thread. The > workstations I am > trying to debug are dude and bob2, no funny characters. The > nmblookup does > work, it just doesn't seem to use the result in the rsync.
Have you read 'How BackupPC Finds Hosts'? http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#how_backuppc_finds_hosts Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
