Re: [BackupPC-users] Nmblookup doesn't find anything, host can't be found

[Tom B. <tb...@ri...>]

There is an alternative solution. It is not elegant, but it works. 

If the server is the GNU/Linux box, add the IP addresses of your network
hosts to /etc/hosts. There is a similar file in Windows XP and probably
Vista.

On the GNU/Linux host open /etc/hosts with your favorite text editor. Add
the following lines and save the file. I don't know what the IP address of
each host is, but I will use 192.168.1.1 for faith-pardus and 192.168.1.101
for Samsung.

192.168.1.1		fatih-pardus	
192.168.1.101	samsung

In Windows XP, the hosts file is located at C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC,
and the format is the same as Linux. The format is identical because the
hosts file system predates GNU/Linux and Windows and was adopted by each. 

The drawback of this solution is: If your IP addresses change, you must edit
the hosts file on each (every) machine. Since your network is probably
small, you are unlikely to have a problem. If you do, the fix is simple.

Tom 

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Goryachev [mailto:mai...@we...] 
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 20:41
To: General list for user discussion,questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Nmblookup doesn't find anything, host can't be
found

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Fatih Arslan wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I've just configured it to 1, but i've earlier tried every possible
> combination, that means i've tried 0,1 and dhcp without any sucees.
>
>
> In config.pl, I've wrote this:
>
> $Conf{DHCPAddressRanges} = [
>   {
>     'first' => '100',
>     'ipAddrBase' => '192.168.1',
>     'last' => '150'
>   }
> ];
>
> My Gateway is 192.168.1.1. I own a Linksys router, which i have
> configured to be in DHCP mode.
> This mode begins with 192.168.1.100 and 50 machines can connect.
I suspect your problem is related to backuppc not being able to talk
nmb to your windows machine. I think you need to  look at the
firewall/filtering on the windows machine, and also ensure file/print
sharing is enabled. Follow those basics, if you can, make sure you can
see it from another windows machine before getting back to backuppc.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Adam
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