On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 18:06 +0100, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > Hi Tamas, > > not really, I must not have explained myself correctly. I have a local > network with a server that backs up our laptops. The laptops use DHCP to > get their IPs, they are Macs and Linux laptops. For my example I will > use a notebook called "myNotebook". It can't be resoved using DNS > resolution, but nmblookup can find it.
If you control the DHCP server, why not assign a known IP address to each of the laptops? Then use either DNS, or put the laptop entries into the hosts file on the backuppc server. -- Travis Fraser <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
