Re: [BackupPC-users] help with Error: Can't Find IP address for HP-PC-XP

three_jeeps wrote:
> [quote="three_jeeps"]
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>> If they have static addresses but aren't in DNS, a quick fix is to 
>>> configure the 
>>> ClientAlias setting to the IP address and turn off the dhcp option.  Or, if 
>>> you 
>>> connect from the web browser on HP-PC-XP and start the backup through the 
>>> web 
>>> interface it should work.
>>>
>>
>> Well, I connected to the backuppc server from HP-PC-XP and using the web 
>> interface to backuppc, run the backup,  and got the same error message as 
>> above.
>>
>> I understand the ClientAlias config param, but, I don't know where to 'turn 
>> off the DHCP' option in backuppc.  How is that done?
>>
>> Thanks
>> John
> 
> 
> Well I think I figured it out but it did not help.  In Config.pl I put in the 
> ip address for ClientAlias.  In my hosts file, I have the line: hp-pc-xp 
> <tab>0<tab>hp_admin
> 
> I ran the backup and I get:
> 
> The reply from server was: ok: requested backup of hp-pc-xp, Go back to 
> hp-pc-xp home page....
> and I did, but no evidence of a backup occured...wtf????????
> This is really getting on my nerves.....If I didn't have to do mac backups, 
> bacula seems a lot more 'intuitively obvious'.......grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Do you have log file entries for the attempt?  And is the XP firewall blocking 
everything including pings?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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