Re: [BackupPC-users] Mac OS X client discovery

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

Chris Stone writes:

> How are BackupPC users discovering Mac OS X machines that have 
> non-static DHCP IPs, or is this not possible and they must have static 
> IPs? Or is there a way to get the Macs to be seen by a netbios name?

On *nix machines one would usually run nmbd (from the samba package)
to support netbios lookups via nmblookup

However, BackupPC is not married to netbois lookup via nmblookup. If
you have any other way of mapping the hostname (backup client name) to
IP address (eg: maybe you can interrogate the DHCP server), simply set
$Conf{NmbLookupFindHostCmd} to point to your script (plus command-line
arguments).  Your script will be passed the host name, and it should
print the IP address to stdout.

If you find a good solution please post it to the list.  Plus I'm
gathering MacOSX setup examples from the mail list for the faq.

Craig