[BackupPC-users] FixedIPNetBiosNameCheck has no effect

[Pete W. <pmw...@ya...>]

One of my hosts, a Win2k box, responds to
"nmblookup -B <bcast> <hostname>"
but not to
"nmblookup -A <hostaddr>"
(error: no response, this is not unusual).
There is no WINS server, and even though it is a DHCP
client, I have DHCP set to 0 in the hosts file to
prevent BackupPC from querying each address in the
DHCP pool.

In the global config.pl,
$Conf{FixedIPNetBiosNameCheck} = 0;
does not have the intended effect.  It finds and pings
the host, but then tries the "nmblookup -A <hostaddr>"
reverse lookup, which fails, resulting in the log
message "dump failed: host <hostname> has mismatching
netbios name".

I believe the bug is in BackupPC_dump sub
CorrectHostCheck, where the logic is backwards.  The
return statement should read:
return if ( $hostIP eq $host ||
!$Conf{FixedIPNetBiosNameCheck}
            || $Conf{NmbLookupCmd} eq "" );


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