Kurt Jasper wrote:
>
> What I want:
> To backup the Windows XP Notebook via OpenVPN using rsyncd.
> 
> Unfortunately I never got rsync working (using cygwin) and browsing the 
> web, it seems that rsyncd is the preferred method.
> But before I try to get Rsyncd working I would like to check if 
> everything else is working and use the Samba-approach.
> 
> Problem: The notebook can not be found from the server.
> 
> Notebooks IP is: 10.128.2.10 and I've added a line to /etc/hosts:
> 
>       10.128.2.10     x31
> 
> ~$ ping x31
> PING x31 (10.128.2.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from x31 (10.128.2.10): icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=85.6 ms
> ...
> 
> Pinging x31 from the server is working, so there is a connection, but 
> when trying to use nmblookup the notebook can not be found.
> 
> I tried both
> # nmblookup x31
> # nmblookup -B 10.128.2.255 x31
> 
> both commands retur: name_query failed to find name x31
> 
> Question:
> 
> Can someone give me some more information about how to get this done?

If you set the dhcp option to 0 in the backuppc host file and have some 
other way of resolving the name (your /etc/hosts entery) it should not 
try to use nmblookup.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com





> 
> I've read the backuppc-manual but I think a complete walkthrough 
> covering the task: 'Backup from Windows over a VPN using rsyncd' would 
> be really great - and I'm willing to write this but before that, I need 
> to know how to setup rsyncd and why my notebook can be pinged but 
> nmblookup return an error.
> 
> Any help would be great and thanks for the hint to use OpenVPN, great 
> piece of software (like backuppc (of course))
> 
> kind regards
> 
> Kurt Jasper
> 
> 
> 
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