On 3/30/2010 3:17 PM, David Williams wrote:
> Anyone got any ideas as to why this isn't working and the web interface
> complains?
No, I would have guessed it was a firewall, but if nmblookup -A works
from the command line that must not be it. Can you do a backup if you
set the dhcp flag to 0 a
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On 3/22/2010 9:42 AM, David Williams wrote:
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> However, there are still issues. When I try and perform a backup of
> laptop1 from within the web interface I get the following message:
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> *Error: Can't find IP address for laptop1*
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> * *
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> *laptop1 is a DHCP host, and I don't know its IP addres
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Hi there,
> No, it doesn't make sense.
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.
WIN
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Michael Stowe wrote:
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>> Does it actually resolve via DNS?
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Michael Stowe wrote:
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>> 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 la
I've tried to clear out some of the ancillary stuff to keep this readable.
> I am by no means an expert in this area at all, and I am open to looking
> at other options. I know that I had the smb method working a while back
> on a fixed IP address windows machine. The last time I posted on here
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> I posted this to a Linux forum but also wanted t
> I posted this to a Linux forum but also wanted to post it here since this
> is also relates to backuppc.
Only peripherally, in the sense that if you're using smb and smb doesn't
work, backuppc won't work.
> I did post something a while back and some mentioned about modifying
> Samba so that it
I posted this to a Linux forum but also wanted to post it here since this is
also relates to backuppc. I did post something a while back and some
mentioned about modifying Samba so that it became a local master. Anyway, I
made the changes to my smb.conf file with the following:
local master =
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