On 9/13/07, Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark writes:
>
> > However I have to manually edit this file every time a laptop
> > switches from wireless to wired to change the hostname's IP
> > address. What's the best way to set and forget this and allow
> > backuppc to back up the laptops no matter what IP address they
> > have? I don't want to have to edit this file all the time.
>
> Use the netbios name to identify the laptop. See the
> documentation.
>
> Craig
Thanks Craig,
This is what I did. I removed one of the hosts, macbook, from the
/etc/hosts file.
I then ran
perl -e 'print(gethostbyname("macbook") ? "ok\n" : "not found\n");'
This returned ok. However this command also returns ok, no matter what
I replace myhost with. I tried:
perl -e 'print(gethostbyname("idancelikeagirl") ? "ok\n" : "not found\n");'
and got ok.
So, after removing macbook from the /etc/hosts file I restarted
backuppc and did a manual incremental of macbook. In the log I get
this:
Running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\macbook\\mark -U mark -E -N -d 1 -c
tarmode\ full -TcN /var/lib/backuppc/pc/macbook/timeStamp.level0 -
Xfer PIDs are now 11575,11574
Getting files newer than Mon Sep 10 10:11:45 2007
timeout connecting to 208.69.32.139:445
timeout connecting to 208.69.32.139:139
Error connecting to 208.69.32.139 (Operation already in progress)
Connection to macbook failed
timeout connecting to 208.69.32.139:445
timeout connecting to 208.69.32.139:139
Error connecting to 208.69.32.139 (Operation already in progress)
Connection to macbook failed
tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0
sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
Got fatal error during xfer (Connection to macbook failed)
Backup aborted (Connection to macbook failed)
Why is backuppc trying to connect to an internet address? The macbook
is on my LAN with ip 192.168.0.10.
Thanks for any help.
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