On 03/21/2011 03:18 AM, Travis Fraser wrote: > 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. > That's the thing, I don't really control it, it's an ADSL router provided by my internet provider, I can't even change the IP range.
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