Has anyone tried using mdns//bonjour for clients? Macs have it enabled by default, most linux distros have it, although not enabled, and you can download it for Windows... Then you wouldn't have to do anything special; they'd be normal dns lookups-- fred.local, etc.
brien James Kyle wrote: > I could be off, I'm pretty new to backuppc myself. From what I > understand though, backuppc uses nmblookup, which means you have to > be running smb services on the clients...in my case windows file > services on mac. > > I didn't like the idea of running smb solely for backuppc, so I used > static dhcp assignment by mac address. > > On Jan 27, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Ted To wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> Reading the documenation on host discovery, it's not clear to me >> how to set up my network so that backuppc knows what dhcp assigned >> IP address to associate with a linux box. Can someone offer some >> help or point me in the right direction? >> >> Thanks, >> Ted To >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to >> share your >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php? >> page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV________________________________ >> _______________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
