Arjun writes:

> The server claims that it is unable to ping any of the hosts defined
> in the hosts file. However, when I use `nmblookup hostname`, the IP
> address that is displayed corresponds to the host, and a subsequent
> pinging of that IP address is successful. What, then, could the
> problem be? These hosts are all on static IP's, and are meant to be
> looked up via their NetBIOS name, as far as I can tell.
>
> I am using BackupPC 2.1.2, perl-5.8.4, nmblookup 3.0.1.4a-Debian.

As the backuppc user, run:

    BackupPC_dump -v -f HOST

and look at the output to see what commands BackupPC_dump runs.
Hit ^C to abort the backup, if it doesn't give an error.

Craig

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