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Re: [Bacula-users] Problem restoring files. [SOLVED]

2010-02-26 02:03:29
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Problem restoring files. [SOLVED]
From: "Erik P. Olsen" <epodata AT gmail DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:00:51 +0100
On 26/02/10 02:04, Steve Ellis wrote:
> On 2/25/2010 4:28 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> I've changed the server IP-address in the storage resource to a host name and
>> the windows client didn't know how to resolve that. Changing it back to
>> IP-address solved the problem.
>>
>> I wonder if Windows Vista uses a host name resolution file which could be 
>> used
>> to translate the host name into an IP-address?
>>
>>
> If you have a DNS server, you can point Vista at it and it would work
> (and who doesn't have a DNS server--I have one at my house!).  However,
> based on a quick googling, vista does support a hosts file, based on
> what I found, it seems that the hosts file is in
> WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc\HOSTS, but requires elevated privilege to edit.
>
Thanks. Maybe I should invest some time in learning how to build a DNS server. 
Am I the only one who doesn't have a DNS server? :-)

-- 
Erik

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