Re: [BackupPC-users] Help Backing Up a WindowsXP Client over OpenVPN with rsyncd

[dan <dan...@gm...>]

instead of using the entry in /etc/hosts, just put the IP in client alias in
the hosts config file.  backuppc uses nmblookup to resolve IP from HOSTNAME
and nmblookup does not check /etc/hosts.



On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Les Mikesell <le...@fu...> wrote:

> Kurt Jasper wrote:
> >
> > What I want:
> > To backup the Windows XP Notebook via OpenVPN using rsyncd.
> >
> > Unfortunately I never got rsync working (using cygwin) and browsing the
> > web, it seems that rsyncd is the preferred method.
> > But before I try to get Rsyncd working I would like to check if
> > everything else is working and use the Samba-approach.
> >
> > Problem: The notebook can not be found from the server.
> >
> > Notebooks IP is: 10.128.2.10 and I've added a line to /etc/hosts:
> >
> >       10.128.2.10     x31
> >
> > ~$ ping x31
> > PING x31 (10.128.2.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
> > 64 bytes from x31 (10.128.2.10): icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=85.6 ms
> > ...
> >
> > Pinging x31 from the server is working, so there is a connection, but
> > when trying to use nmblookup the notebook can not be found.
> >
> > I tried both
> > # nmblookup x31
> > # nmblookup -B 10.128.2.255 x31
> >
> > both commands retur: name_query failed to find name x31
> >
> > Question:
> >
> > Can someone give me some more information about how to get this done?
>
> If you set the dhcp option to 0 in the backuppc host file and have some
> other way of resolving the name (your /etc/hosts entery) it should not
> try to use nmblookup.
>
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>     les...@gm...
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > I've read the backuppc-manual but I think a complete walkthrough
> > covering the task: 'Backup from Windows over a VPN using rsyncd' would
> > be really great - and I'm willing to write this but before that, I need
> > to know how to setup rsyncd and why my notebook can be pinged but
> > nmblookup return an error.
> >
> > Any help would be great and thanks for the hint to use OpenVPN, great
> > piece of software (like backuppc (of course))
> >
> > kind regards
> >
> > Kurt Jasper
> >
> >
> >
> >
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