I am trying to plan my first backupPC installation and have a question 
on how to set up the backupc/host file (Mandriva 9.0, intending to use 
rsync).

The "How BackupPC Finds Hosts" section in the documentation is very 
clear: for DHCP hosts I should set the DHCP flag to 1 and then will get 
NETBIOS name resolution (rmblookup). That means, that I need to install 
a samba server on each DHCP client - which is an overkill and an 
undesired complication, I do not need samba if I use rsync.

2 questions:

1. If the /etc/hosts files on the server and clients contain the correct 
IP addresses, can I than simply set the DHCP flag to 0 and fake using 
static addresses, even if a host has obtained its address via DHCP?

2. If yes, has anybody experience in using nmap for verifying/correcting 
the /etc/hosts entries for use by backupPC? At present I use nmap (run 
as root) to get a list of valid name<->IP address mappings for manually 
  adjusting addresses if a DHCP laptop needs to assume certain server 
functions. It looks promising to digest this into an automatically run 
procedure.

Thanks!

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