From: Nils B. (Lemonbit) <ni...@le...> - 2008-04-14 14:20:22
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Wayne Gemmell wrote: > On Monday 14 April 2008 15:46:37 Paul Horn wrote: >> Hosts with a dash in the name are not resolved by nmb-lookup. I >> ended up >> putting reserved addresses in my local DHCP server so that such >> workstations always receive a "known" ip when on my network, then >> made a >> corresponding entry in /etc/hosts on the backuppc server. >> > > I knew it wasn't a great plan hijacking another thread. The > workstations I am > trying to debug are dude and bob2, no funny characters. The > nmblookup does > work, it just doesn't seem to use the result in the rsync. Have you read 'How BackupPC Finds Hosts'? http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#how_backuppc_finds_hosts Nils Breunese. |