Re: [BackupPC-users] mismatching netbios name

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

johon Doe writes:

> I found the following error on the LOG file for the
> first backup of a win95 pc.
> 
> 2004-12-07 11:43:03 User backuppc requested backup of
> varian3400 (varian3400)
> 2004-12-07 11:43:07 Backup failed on varian3400 (host
> varian3400 has mismatching netbios name )
> 
> but:
> 
> root # smbclient -L varian3400
> Password: 
> 
>         Sharename       Type      Comment
>         ---------       ----      -------
>         STAR            Disk      
>         IPC$            IPC       blah blah
>         Server               Comment
>         ---------            -------
> 
>         Workgroup            Master
>         ---------            -------

BackupPC uses nmblookup -A IP_ADDR to check the netbios
name.  See $Conf{NmbLookupCmd}.

You can run BackupPC_dump -v -f HOST to see exactly what is
going on.

You can set $Conf{FixedIPNetBiosNameCheck} to 0 to disable
the netbios name check.

Craig