Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
Can anyone help me with the samba issue?
Will also try another group thanks.
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On 2/15/2011 9:36 AM, David Williams wrote:
Ryan,
Thanks for the info. Tried what you suggested and here is what
happened.
smbclient -L laptop1 -U dwilliams
Enter dwilliams's password:
session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0
mount -t cifs //192.168.15.50/c$ /mnt/test/ -o
username=dwilliams
Password:
mount error(13): Permission denied
dwilliams is setup as an admin user on laptop1.
smbfs did not work and I got the following message: "smbfs is
deprecated and will be removed from the 2.6.27 kernel. Please
migrate to cifs"
Perhaps this is a windows 7 security issue, not sure. I know
several years ago I was using SMB to backup an XP machine and
didn't have these issues.
I'm not familiar with rsync so would have to look into that.
David Williams
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On 2/15/2011 9:29 AM, Ryan Blake wrote:
David,
Being a "mobile warrior," I
believe you would be best fitted with using rsync (cwRsync
for Windows)instead of smb. You also need to keep in mind that your system will need
to transfer all files across the pipe to check their
checksum. If you are connected via wireless when you are
home, I would not suggest it, unless your drive is
practically unused.
With that said, if you still would
prefer to use smb, I would suggest doing some basic
troubleshooting from another PC (if possible) by simply
connecting to the \\laptop1 device (you will
want to connect to the c$ share). If you can connect
successfully or if you don't have another device to test, I
would suggest running the following command on your linux
box:
smbclient -L ComputerName -U
Administrator*
If the system comes back with your
open network shares, then good. If it does not, then
something is wrong and you'll need to look into the error
message it gives back. If it does work, you can try one
last thing, actually mounting the drive to your server to
ensure that works.
1. Create a folder in /mnt using
mkdir /mnt/test
2. Run this command: mount -t cifs
//IP.AddressOrHostName.Of.Computer/c$ /mnt/test/ -o
username=Administrator*
3. If that does not work, exchange
cifs for smbfs. mount -t cifs
//IP.AddressOrHostName.Of.Computer/c$ /mnt/test/ -o
username=Administrator*
You should be able to cd to
/mnt/test and do a ls -aL to see all the data in the root of
your C: on your laptop. If that works, it *should* work
assuming your credentials are correct in BackupPC's configs.
P.S. Once you test mounting,
you'll probablywant to unmount with umount /mnt/test
* [Or whatever username you want
to use to connect]
~Ryan
From: David
Williams
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 8:49 AM
To: General
list for user discussion,questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
On 2/7/2011 3:49 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 12:39 -0500, Ryan Blake wrote:
However, if that's not an option for whatever reason, the only other option
would be to ensure that your dhcpd service is properly connected/integrated
with bind [named] (assuming you are using these).
That's what I do at my office. However, I use dnsmasq at home, which
provides both DNS and DHCP. It automatically integrates them, so when
you supply your hostname with the DHCP request (as most clients do), it
gets added to the local DNS domain
Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
David, Did you make sure you have File and Printer sharing enabled on the computer (right click on your network device and choose properties and look for File and Printer sharing to be checked) and have the firewall open to allow traffic (you may even want to temporarily disable it when doing the testing you did earlier)? Also, I am guessing the dwilliams account is not an account from part of a domain at work? If it is, you'll need to use username=domain\\username (note the \\). Your other option would be to create a local admin account on your workstation for backup and recovery. You should also right click on your C drive and ensure that under the Sharing tab that the C$ share shows up. You can do a more thorough check if you go into your Control Panel, select Small Icons (top left of window), and find Folder Options. From there, hit the View tab and under Advanced Settings, uncheck Simple file sharing. Now go back and check for that c$ share. It would also be a good time to see what permissions are set on it. Those few steps should at least get you started towards finding your solution. ~Ryan From: David Williams Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:30 AM To: General list for user discussion,questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time Can anyone help me with the samba issue? Will also try another group thanks. David Williams Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the Palm Pre and Pixi: Golf Caddie | Golf Caddie Forum | Golf Caddie FAQ by DTW-Consulting, Inc. On 2/15/2011 9:36 AM, David Williams wrote: Ryan, Thanks for the info. Tried what you suggested and here is what happened. smbclient -L laptop1 -U dwilliams Enter dwilliams's password: session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0 mount -t cifs //192.168.15.50/c$ /mnt/test/ -o username=dwilliams Password: mount error(13): Permission denied dwilliams is setup as an admin user on laptop1. smbfs did not work and I got the following message: smbfs is deprecated and will be removed from the 2.6.27 kernel. Please migrate to cifs Perhaps this is a windows 7 security issue, not sure. I know several years ago I was using SMB to backup an XP machine and didn't have these issues. I'm not familiar with rsync so would have to look into that. -- David Williams Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the Palm Pre and Pixi: Golf Caddie | Golf Caddie Forum | Golf Caddie FAQ by DTW-Consulting, Inc. On 2/15/2011 9:29 AM, Ryan Blake wrote: David, Being a mobile warrior, I believe you would be best fitted with using rsync (cwRsync for Windows) instead of smb. You also need to keep in mind that your system will need to transfer all files across the pipe to check their checksum. If you are connected via wireless when you are home, I would not suggest it, unless your drive is practically unused. With that said, if you still would prefer to use smb, I would suggest doing some basic troubleshooting from another PC (if possible) by simply connecting to the \\laptop1 device (you will want to connect to the c$ share). If you can connect successfully or if you don't have another device to test, I would suggest running the following command on your linux box: smbclient -L ComputerName -U Administrator* If the system comes back with your open network shares, then good. If it does not, then something is wrong and you'll need to look into the error message it gives back. If it does work, you can try one last thing, actually mounting the drive to your server to ensure that works. 1. Create a folder in /mnt using mkdir /mnt/test 2. Run this command: mount -t cifs //IP.AddressOrHostName.Of.Computer/c$ /mnt/test/ -o username=Administrator* 3. If that does not work, exchange cifs for smbfs. mount -t cifs //IP.AddressOrHostName.Of.Computer/c$ /mnt/test/ -o username=Administrator* You should be able to cd to /mnt/test and do a ls -aL to see all the data in the root of your C: on your laptop. If that works, it *should* work assuming your credentials are correct in BackupPC's configs. P.S. Once you test mounting, you'll probably want to unmount with umount /mnt/test * [Or whatever username you want to use to connect] ~Ryan From: David Williams Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 8:49 AM To: General list for user discussion,questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time On 2/7/2011 3:49 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 12:39 -0500, Ryan Blake wrote: However, if that's not an option for whatever reason, the only other option would be to ensure that your dhcpd service is properly connected/integrated with bind [named] (assuming you are using these). That's what I do at my office. However, I use
Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
On 2/7/2011 3:49 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 12:39 -0500, Ryan Blake wrote: However, if that's not an option for whatever reason, the only other option would be to ensure that your dhcpd service is properly connected/integrated with bind [named] (assuming you are using these). That's what I do at my office. However, I use dnsmasq at home, which provides both DNS and DHCP. It automatically integrates them, so when you supply your hostname with the DHCP request (as most clients do), it gets added to the local DNS domain automatically. Also, consider Bonjour/Avahi. Then you can use hostname.local as your name/alias and it will work. Ubuntu and Macs will support this out of the box. On Windows it's easy to install. Regards, Tyler All, I have now gotten to the point whereby the backup is at least starting. It is also stopping very quickly with the following errors: full backup started for share \\laptop1 Xfer PIDs are now 28877,28876 Exec failed for tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share \\laptop1) Backup aborted (No files dumped for share \\laptop1) Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0) I suspect that I don't have some of the smb parameters setup correctly. I have done the following: XferMethod = smb SmbShareName = \\laptop1 (have also tried C$) SmbShareUserName and SmbSharePasswd have both been set. BackupFilesOnly = \users\dwilliams How can I troubleshoot this issue further? Are there any command line commands that I can use to ensure I can connect to laptop1 via smb? I have Windows7 64-bit on the laptop. Any additional help will be much appreciated. -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
David, Being a mobile warrior, I believe you would be best fitted with using rsync (cwRsync for Windows) instead of smb. You also need to keep in mind that your system will need to transfer all files across the pipe to check their checksum. If you are connected via wireless when you are home, I would not suggest it, unless your drive is practically unused. With that said, if you still would prefer to use smb, I would suggest doing some basic troubleshooting from another PC (if possible) by simply connecting to the \\laptop1 device (you will want to connect to the c$ share). If you can connect successfully or if you don't have another device to test, I would suggest running the following command on your linux box: smbclient -L ComputerName -U Administrator* If the system comes back with your open network shares, then good. If it does not, then something is wrong and you'll need to look into the error message it gives back. If it does work, you can try one last thing, actually mounting the drive to your server to ensure that works. 1. Create a folder in /mnt using mkdir /mnt/test 2. Run this command: mount -t cifs //IP.AddressOrHostName.Of.Computer/c$ /mnt/test/ -o username=Administrator* 3. If that does not work, exchange cifs for smbfs. mount -t cifs //IP.AddressOrHostName.Of.Computer/c$ /mnt/test/ -o username=Administrator* You should be able to cd to /mnt/test and do a ls -aL to see all the data in the root of your C: on your laptop. If that works, it *should* work assuming your credentials are correct in BackupPC's configs. P.S. Once you test mounting, you'll probably want to unmount with umount /mnt/test * [Or whatever username you want to use to connect] ~Ryan From: David Williams Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 8:49 AM To: General list for user discussion,questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time On 2/7/2011 3:49 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 12:39 -0500, Ryan Blake wrote: However, if that's not an option for whatever reason, the only other option would be to ensure that your dhcpd service is properly connected/integrated with bind [named] (assuming you are using these). That's what I do at my office. However, I use dnsmasq at home, which provides both DNS and DHCP. It automatically integrates them, so when you supply your hostname with the DHCP request (as most clients do), it gets added to the local DNS domain automatically. Also, consider Bonjour/Avahi. Then you can use hostname.local as your name/alias and it will work. Ubuntu and Macs will support this out of the box. On Windows it's easy to install. Regards, Tyler All, I have now gotten to the point whereby the backup is at least starting. It is also stopping very quickly with the following errors: full backup started for share \\laptop1 Xfer PIDs are now 28877,28876 Exec failed for tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share \\laptop1) Backup aborted (No files dumped for share \\laptop1) Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0) I suspect that I don't have some of the smb parameters setup correctly. I have done the following: XferMethod = smb SmbShareName = \\laptop1 (have also tried C$) SmbShareUserName and SmbSharePasswd have both been set. BackupFilesOnly = \users\dwilliams How can I troubleshoot this issue further? Are there any command line commands that I can use to ensure I can connect to laptop1 via smb? I have Windows7 64-bit on the laptop. Any additional help will be much appreciated. -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb___ BackupPC-users mailing list
Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
Ryan,
Thanks for the info. Tried what you suggested and here is what
happened.
smbclient -L laptop1 -U dwilliams
Enter dwilliams's password:
session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0
mount -t cifs //192.168.15.50/c$ /mnt/test/ -o username=dwilliams
Password:
mount error(13): Permission denied
dwilliams is setup as an admin user on laptop1.
smbfs did not work and I got the following message: "smbfs is
deprecated and will be removed from the 2.6.27 kernel. Please
migrate to cifs"
Perhaps this is a windows 7 security issue, not sure. I know
several years ago I was using SMB to backup an XP machine and
didn't have these issues.
I'm not familiar with rsync so would have to look into that.
David Williams
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On 2/15/2011 9:29 AM, Ryan Blake wrote:
David,
Being a "mobile warrior," I believe
you would be best fitted with using rsync (cwRsync for
Windows)instead of smb. You
also need to keep in mind that your system will need to
transfer all files across the pipe to check their checksum.
If you are connected via wireless when you are home, I would
not suggest it, unless your drive is practically unused.
With that said, if you still would
prefer to use smb, I would suggest doing some basic
troubleshooting from another PC (if possible) by simply
connecting to the \\laptop1 device (you will
want to connect to the c$ share). If you can connect
successfully or if you don't have another device to test, I
would suggest running the following command on your linux box:
smbclient -L ComputerName -U
Administrator*
If the system comes back with your
open network shares, then good. If it does not, then
something is wrong and you'll need to look into the error
message it gives back. If it does work, you can try one last
thing, actually mounting the drive to your server to ensure
that works.
1. Create a folder in /mnt using
mkdir /mnt/test
2. Run this command: mount -t cifs
//IP.AddressOrHostName.Of.Computer/c$ /mnt/test/ -o
username=Administrator*
3. If that does not work, exchange
cifs for smbfs. mount -t cifs
//IP.AddressOrHostName.Of.Computer/c$ /mnt/test/ -o
username=Administrator*
You should be able to cd to
/mnt/test and do a ls -aL to see all the data in the root of
your C: on your laptop. If that works, it *should* work
assuming your credentials are correct in BackupPC's configs.
P.S. Once you test mounting, you'll
probablywant to unmount with umount /mnt/test
* [Or whatever username you want to
use to connect]
~Ryan
From: David Williams
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 8:49 AM
To: General
list for user discussion,questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
On 2/7/2011 3:49 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 12:39 -0500, Ryan Blake wrote:
However, if that's not an option for whatever reason, the only other option
would be to ensure that your dhcpd service is properly connected/integrated
with bind [named] (assuming you are using these).
That's what I do at my office. However, I use dnsmasq at home, which
provides both DNS and DHCP. It automatically integrates them, so when
you supply your hostname with the DHCP request (as most clients do), it
gets added to the local DNS domain automatically.
Also, consider Bonjour/Avahi. Then you can use "hostname.local" as your
name/alias and it will work. Ubuntu and Macs will support this out of
the box. On Windows it's easy to install.
Regards,
Tyler
All,
I have now gotten to the point whereby the backup is at least
starting. It is also stopping very quickly with the following
errors:
full backup started for share \\laptop1
Xfer PIDs are now 28877,28876
Exec failed for
tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share \\laptop1)
Backup aborted (No fi
Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
On 02/03 01:45 , David Williams wrote: Got a little free time so thought that I would try again to see how I can back up my laptop. It's set to DHCP and is connected to the same network as the BackupPC server. Is there any hope you can get a static IP address assignment for your laptop, so that the BackupPC server doesn't have to 'hunt' for it? This is what we do everywhere, and it solves the problem perfectly. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com -- The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
The problem that I have is that I travel everyweek and hook my laptop onto clients networks so DHCP is needed. That said, perhaps there is a way (I think there is) that I can force my DHCP server at home to always provide the same internal IP address to my laptop right, by specifying the MAC address or something? David Williams Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the Palm Pre and Pixi: Golf Caddie | Golf Caddie Forum | Golf Caddie FAQ by DTW-Consulting, Inc. On 2/7/2011 10:49 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 02/03 01:45 , David Williams wrote: Got a little free time so thought that I would try again to see how I can back up my laptop. It's set to DHCP and is connected to the same network as the BackupPC server. Is there any hope you can get a static IP address assignment for your laptop, so that the BackupPC server doesn't have to 'hunt' for it? This is what we do everywhere, and it solves the problem perfectly. -- The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
On 02/07 11:38 , David Williams wrote: That said, perhaps there is a way (I think there is) that I can force my DHCP server at home to always provide the same internal IP address to my laptop right, by specifying the MAC address or something? That's what I was suggesting, tho perhaps not clearly enough. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com -- The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
On 2/7/2011 11:38 AM, David Williams wrote: The problem that I have is that I travel everyweek and hook my laptop onto clients networks so DHCP is needed. That said, perhaps there is a way (I think there is) that I can force my DHCP server at home to always provide the same internal IP address to my laptop right, by specifying the MAC address or something? Yes, all DHCP servers should have a way to reserve an IP by MAC address, and most will give the same MAC the same IP for some reasonable length of time anyway unless there is a big turnover with the lease expired. Anyway, if you just connect to the backuppc web interface from the laptop itself and request the backup, it will find you - and keep working at least until the IP changes. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
Ok, I will take a look into that. I'm not a networking person by any means and tend to stumble through these things :) David Williams Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the Palm Pre and Pixi: Golf Caddie | Golf Caddie Forum | Golf Caddie FAQ by DTW-Consulting, Inc. On 2/7/2011 12:19 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 02/07 11:38 , David Williams wrote: That said, perhaps there is a way (I think there is) that I can force my DHCP server at home to always provide the same internal IP address to my laptop right, by specifying the MAC address or something? That's what I was suggesting, tho perhaps not clearly enough. -- The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
On 2/7/2011 12:32 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 2/7/2011 11:38 AM, David Williams wrote: The problem that I have is that I travel everyweek and hook my laptop onto clients networks so DHCP is needed. That said, perhaps there is a way (I think there is) that I can force my DHCP server at home to always provide the same internal IP address to my laptop right, by specifying the MAC address or something? Yes, all DHCP servers should have a way to reserve an IP by MAC address, and most will give the same MAC the same IP for some reasonable length of time anyway unless there is a big turnover with the lease expired. *Anyway, if you just connect to the backuppc web interface from the laptop itself and request the backup, it will find you - and keep working at least until the IP changes.* I do connect to the web interface from the laptop itself and request the backup and I get the following message: laptop1 is a DHCP host, and I don't know its IP address. I checked the netbios name of 192.168.15.155, and found that that machine is not laptop1. Until I see laptop1 at a particular DHCP address, you can only start this request from the client machine itself. That's my issue, but will look into trying to reserve a specific address for this laptop as that's probably an easier solution to the problem, at least for me :) -- The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
On 2/7/2011 12:41 PM, David Williams wrote: The problem that I have is that I travel everyweek and hook my laptop onto clients networks so DHCP is needed. That said, perhaps there is a way (I think there is) that I can force my DHCP server at home to always provide the same internal IP address to my laptop right, by specifying the MAC address or something? Yes, all DHCP servers should have a way to reserve an IP by MAC address, and most will give the same MAC the same IP for some reasonable length of time anyway unless there is a big turnover with the lease expired. *Anyway, if you just connect to the backuppc web interface from the laptop itself and request the backup, it will find you - and keep working at least until the IP changes.* I do connect to the web interface from the laptop itself and request the backup and I get the following message: laptop1 is a DHCP host, and I don't know its IP address. I checked the netbios name of 192.168.15.155, and found that that machine is not laptop1. That doesn't mean it can't find you. It means it didn't like the name it found. Until I see laptop1 at a particular DHCP address, you can only start this request from the client machine itself. That's my issue, but will look into trying to reserve a specific address for this laptop as that's probably an easier solution to the problem, at least for me :) The check could be case sensitive. What do you see if you do: nmblookup -A 192.168.15.155 or from windows, 'nbtstat -A 192.168.15.155'? Also, a quick brute-force fix would be to set ClientAlias to the current IP address of the box, changing as needed. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 12:39 -0500, Ryan Blake wrote: However, if that's not an option for whatever reason, the only other option would be to ensure that your dhcpd service is properly connected/integrated with bind [named] (assuming you are using these). That's what I do at my office. However, I use dnsmasq at home, which provides both DNS and DHCP. It automatically integrates them, so when you supply your hostname with the DHCP request (as most clients do), it gets added to the local DNS domain automatically. Also, consider Bonjour/Avahi. Then you can use hostname.local as your name/alias and it will work. Ubuntu and Macs will support this out of the box. On Windows it's easy to install. Regards, Tyler -- ... that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer upon you greater wisdom or understanding than you possessed when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other. -- Edward R. Murrow -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
