[BackupPC-users] smb scheduled backup fails, but manual works

2006-12-06 Thread Chris Purves
Hi, I have a problem where a scheduled smb backup does not run. The home page for that machine shows 'Pings to king-graham have failed 109 consecutive times.' However, I can ping the machine from the command line and I can manually start an incremental backup after which the home page shows

Re: [BackupPC-users] smb scheduled backup fails, but manual works

2006-12-06 Thread Travis Fraser
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 17:11 -0700, Chris Purves wrote: Hi, I have a problem where a scheduled smb backup does not run. The home page for that machine shows 'Pings to king-graham have failed 109 consecutive times.' However, I can ping the machine from the command line and I can manually

Re: [BackupPC-users] smb scheduled backup fails, but manual works

2006-12-06 Thread Tristan Stahnke
I had a similar problem on my home network when I set the DHCP flag in the conf/hosts file to 1. Setting it to 0 seemed to fix that problem. Since I don't have a DNS server on my home network I'm guessing it wasn't able to properly query the router for DHCP information, but it was still able to