___________________________________________________________
Dave Williams
Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the Palm Pre and Pixi:
Golf Caddie by DTW-Consulting, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:11 PM
To: mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org; General list for user discussion, questions
and support
Cc: dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Communicating with a windows laptop on my
workgroup
Michael Stowe wrote:
>
>> Does it actually resolve via DNS?
>
>> This is a home network so to be honest, I wouldn't even know how to go
>> about testing this. My laptop is associate to a Workgroup and my Linux
>> server has a static IP address within the 192.168.15.x range. I can ping
>> the laptop by ip address but I am not sure what it's normal address would
>> be. For example, would it be laptop1.workgroup.com ?
>
> Probably not. Somewhere on your network you've got a DHCP server that's
> giving your laptop an IP address, and there's probably a DNS server that's
> either being updated directly by your laptop (Windows does that) or by
> your DHCP server.
>
> At any rate, to find out, open a command window on your Windows box and
type:
>
> ipconfig
>
> Which should yield a "connection-specific DNS suffix."
>
> Workgroups/WINS is -quite- different, and entirely unrelated.
For a network with only a few machines, the easiest approach might be to
configure the router/dhcp server to give out fixed IP addresses based on the
known ethernet MAC addresses. Most home routers have a simple web
interface
and the ability to configure this. They may also offer to provide DNS, but
for
a couple of machines it doesn't matter - you can just set dhcp to 0 in
backuppc
and put the IP address in ClientAlias.
That's a good idea. I'll check that out as it would be much simpler. I'll
only ever have 3-4 laptops that I'll want to consider backing up.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 9.0.790 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2752 - Release Date: 03/17/10
03:33:00
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval
Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs
proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance.
See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net
List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
