Hello. Thank you, you saved me from going insane. There was a wildcard DNS entry, and my hostname (say, “ivanov”) was first resolved as “ivanov.spb.ru MX <some-global-ip>”, instead of “nmblookup -> <some-local-IP>”.
So the only remaining problem is with the truly unresponsive rsyncd, on the Windows 7 box. Can't connect even from localhost. Either I missed a firewall/antivirus setting somewhere, or the rsyncd doesn't like Windows 7 (and it is even 32-bit). Sincerely, Maxim 2012/1/31 Les Mikesell <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:25 AM, haruspex <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Name resolution, via nmblookup. IP addresses are assigned via DHCP, so >> subject to change. So you are saying that connection would have >> established fine, but it tries to establish it with a wrong place?.. >> An interesting idea. Now, how can the result of the BackupPC name >> resolution can be checked?.. > > You just need to test things the same way to figure out what is wrong. > If dchp is set in the backuppc host file entry, backuppc should be > using nmblookup to find the name. For a quick check if things work > otherwise, you can put the current IP address in ClientNameAlias - and > if that makes backups work your problem is with name resolution. > There may be some things you can configure in the samba setup (like a > WINS server if you have one) to improve name resolution, or if the > hosts don't roam much you might be able to assign reserved IPs in > DHCP. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ 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/
