> Lonny,
>
> Got it. I had to insert the hostname of the server in the hosts file. though
> it worked but I still don;t get the fact that i did give the FQDN while
> installing the client, but it did not worked.
> The server name is not given in the fd-conf file of the client right? or is
> there any other way to verify the server name?
The full definition for the director will be on the client yes :-) Here's an
example of just a client fd config file:
Director {
Name = not_the_client-dir
Password = "whatever"
}
So the client will try do do a lookup of "not_the_client-dir". If it can not
resolve this, it wont connect :-) This doesn't however explain why if you
provided the FQDN of the master director it only tried using the base host
name *shrug*
Either way, glad you got it working!
--
Lonny
> regards
>
> On 3/28/07, Lonny Selinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > If I issue status client=client-name, it is able to connect to the
>> director
>> > thouh. Does it have anything to do?
>>
>> Are you doing that from bconsole? and if so, are you running that right on
>> the
>> client, or on the director and making the connection to the client from
>> the
>> director?
>>
>> If thats the case then your director can resolve the client address, not
>> the
>> client resolve the director address. Either way the error you are getting
>> is a
>> name to IP resolution failure. What happens if you specify the FQDN in
>> your
>> configuration on the client? Right now it's just looking for 'tracfire'
>> ...
>> what happens if you change that to tracfire.itsdomain.com?
>>
>>
>> >
>> > On 3/28/07, Lonny Selinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Hi Lonny,
>> >> >
>> >> > client fd,conf file does not have any place where the server ip or
>> name
>> >> is
>> >> > defined.It justs has the name of the director, which I believe has
>> >> nothing
>> >> > to do with the access.
>> >>
>> >> It has to be able to resolve the director to connect to it though ;-)
>> >>
>> >> > I do however remeber while installing the client it
>> >> > did asked for the the server name, and I gave FQDN there. My host
>> file
>> >> on
>> >> > both the systems don't have the server IP, but the older one is
>> somehow
>> >> > pinging the server with just the hostname, while the new machine
>> needs a
>> >> > FQDN to ping.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> So you can ping the director *from* the new machine but only if you use
>> >> the
>> >> FQDN? I'm not sure how Windows does it but do you have a default
>> 'search'
>> >> domain specification for DNS in Windows?
>> >>
>> >> On Linux you can specify this in the resolve.conf file with a 'search'
>> >> directive:
>> >>
>> >> search mydomain.com
>> >> nameserver dns.server.com
>> >>
>> >> The specific failure was: gethostbyname() for host "tracfire" failed:
>> >>
>> >> I'm assuming tracfire is the director you can not conenct to, and it
>> looks
>> >> like it's becasue it doesn't know what its' IP is (can't resolve in
>> DNS).
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> L
>> >>
>> >> > Regards
>> >> >
>> >> > On 3/28/07, Lonny Selinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > Hi everyone,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I am trying to add a windowes XP client to my backup
>> infrastructure.
>> >> I
>> >> >> > already have one, but when i tried to add the second with exact
>> same
>> >> >> > configuration, I recieve the following errors where tracfire is
>> the
>> >> >> bacula
>> >> >> > server, when i run the job.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 28-Mar 12:53 syru156-51-fd:
>> >> client051-Windows-Job.2007-03-28_14.15.25Fatal
>> >> >> > error: Failed to connect to Storage daemon: tracfire:10103
>> >> >> > 28-Mar 12:53 syru156-51-fd:
>> >> >> client051-Windows-Job.2007-03-28_14.15.25Error:
>> >> >> > ../../lib/bnet.c:779 gethostbyname() for host "tracfire" failed:
>> >> >> > ERR=Authoritative answer for host not found.
>> >> >> > 28-Mar 14:15 tracfire-dir:
>> >> client051-Windows-Job.2007-03-28_14.15.25Fatal
>> >> >> > error: Socket error on Storage command: ERR=No data available
>> >> >>
>> >> >> This looks like a DNS or hosts file issue. Are you using FQDNs? does
>> >> >> everything resolve from both sides and if you do a lookup for your
>> >> >> director's
>> >> >> IP for the new XP machine?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Shouldn't be anytthing to do with the server side configuration,
>> as I
>> >> >> have
>> >> >> > three unix and one windows XP cleint alredy running the same
>> >> >> configuration.
>> >> >> > The new windows client has xactly the same configuration apart
>> from
>> >> the
>> >> >> ip's
>> >> >> > ofcourse. Can anyone please point me to what I should be looking
>> at?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Regards
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
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