Hi there, > No, it doesn't make sense. What you want (and need) is a master > browser, which (on a workgroup, not a Windows domain) is elected > from computers on the segment. N.B.: if you're not on the same > segment and don't have a domain controller, you can't browse or use > nmblookup.
WINS was created to work around this, and may help you in this case as well. Name resolution in SMB/AD uses three methods: - broadcast - WINS - DNS The thread has mostly been about getting a master browser working, but if the two BackupPC & client nodes are on the same segement, broadcast resolution should work. The exception might be if your client is not responding to Netbios broadcast name queries (UDP 137). So WINS can provide you a central name resolution service (WINS server) which can respond to name queries on behalf of clients. The caveat being the clients need to know to register their name with a WINS server. WINS also solves the name resolution between segments problem. DHCP can dish out the WINS server setting (ISC dhcp name it 'netbios-name-servers'), but since you're statically allocating an IP address, you'll need to manually configure the setting. I found http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzahl/rzahlcfgpcwinsxp.htm which describes how to do it for Windows XP. The samba server requires the option wins support = yes Now when you're client boots up, it'll register it's name with the WINS server. nbmlookup accepts a -R and -U option. From the manpage: -U <unicast address> Do a unicast query to the specified address or host unicast address. This option (along with the -R option) is needed to query a WINS server. -R Set the recursion desired bit in the packet to do a recursive lookup. This is used when sending a name query to a machine running a WINS server and the user wishes to query the names in the WINS server. If this bit is unset the normal (broadcast responding) NetBIOS processing code on a machine is used instead. See RFC1001, RFC1002 for details. Test first to ensure nmblookup returns the expected result, and then update backuppc to use the above options when calling nmblookup. The third resolution method (DNS) is just that: given a bareware name, append a suffix to the name and send a query to the configured DNS server. AD uses this now to replace broadcast and WINS resolution, coupled with dynamic DNS for clients to register their name to the DNS server. So hopefully that can help you to configure things the way you'd like to - personally, the neatest solution is to setup a DNS server, and configure your a DNS record for your desktop since it's statically assigned, but all methods above should work they way their advertised to work :) Regards, Chris Bennett cgb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
