Author: David Williams <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:45:37 -0500
Ok, Got a little free time so thought that I would try again to see how I can back up my laptop. It's set to DHCP and is connected to the same network as the BackupPC server. In the laptop client fil
Author: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:49:28 -0600
Is there any hope you can get a static IP address assignment for your laptop, so that the BackupPC server doesn't have to 'hunt' for it? This is what we do everywhere, and it solves the problem perfe
As Carl suggested, manually forcing a static IP address through DHCP is the best solution. However, if that's not an option for whatever reason, the only other option would be to ensure that your dhc
Author: David Williams <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:38:22 -0600
The problem that I have is that I travel everyweek and hook my laptop onto clients networks so DHCP is needed. That said, perhaps there is a way (I think there is) that I can force my DHCP server at
Author: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 12:19:40 -0600
That's what I was suggesting, tho perhaps not clearly enough. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com -- The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:32:59 -0600
Yes, all DHCP servers should have a way to reserve an IP by MAC address, and most will give the same MAC the same IP for some reasonable length of time anyway unless there is a big turnover with the
Author: David Williams <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:32:54 -0600
Ok, I will take a look into that. I'm not a networking person by any means and tend to stumble through these things :) David Williams Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the Palm Pre and Pixi: G
Author: David Williams <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:41:06 -0600
On 2/7/2011 12:32 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 2/7/2011 11:38 AM, David Williams wrote: The problem that I have is that I travel everyweek and hook my laptop onto clients networks so DHCP is needed. Th
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:57:59 -0600
That doesn't mean it can't find you. It means it didn't like the name it found. The check could be case sensitive. What do you see if you do: nmblookup -A 192.168.15.155 or from windows, 'nbtstat -A
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:49:58 +0000
That's what I do at my office. However, I use dnsmasq at home, which provides both DNS and DHCP. It automatically integrates them, so when you supply your hostname with the DHCP request (as most clie
Author: David Williams <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:49:39 -0500
On 2/7/2011 3:49 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 12:39 -0500, Ryan Blake wrote: However, if that's not an option for whatever reason, the only other option would be to ensure that yo
David, Being a "mobile warrior," I believe you would be best fitted with using rsync (cwRsync for Windows) instead of smb. You also need to keep in mind that your system will need to transfer all fil
Author: David Williams <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:36:09 -0500
Ryan, Thanks for the info. Tried what you suggested and here is what happened. smbclient -L laptop1 -U dwilliams Enter dwilliams's password: session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0 mount -t cifs //192.168.
Author: David Williams <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:30:01 -0500
Can anyone help me with the samba issue? Will also try another group thanks. David Williams Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the Palm Pre and Pixi: Golf Caddie Home Golf Caddie Home Page Golf
David, Did you make sure you have File and Printer sharing enabled on the computer (right click on your network device and choose properties and look for File and Printer sharing to be checked) and h
Author: David Williams <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:31:44 -0500
Ryan, Thanks again for your help. Sharing wasn't enabled on the C drive so I changed that. I can now mount the C drive from my Linux box. However, the backup still fails and the following command sti
David, You were right when you unchecked the wizard option. I couldn't remember the verbatim message on Windows 7. You could try a couple more things: 1. Specify the IP address instead of the hostnam