[Bacula-users] [SOLVED] Re: suddenly not connecting to client

On 28/08/14 09:34 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
>>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Dale <garydale AT torfree DOT net> writes:
> Gary> For some reason my Bacula server isn't connecting to a Windows 7 client.
> Gary> I've been having some problems with the client computer but they seem to
> Gary> be settled now except for this one. I've disabled the Windows firewall
> Gary> to try to resolve the problem, but that didn't work.
>
> Gary> I'm seeing this in the bconsole messages:
> Gary>    Non-fatal FD errors:    2
> Gary>    SD Errors:              0
> Gary>    FD termination status:  Error
> Gary>    SD termination status:  Waiting on FD
> Gary>    Termination:
>
> Gary> I also got this message at one point:
>
> Gary> 27-Aug 11:15 server-fd JobId 2793: Error:
> Gary> /home/kern/bacula/k/bacula/src/lib/bsock.c:203 gethostbyname() for host
> Gary> "<server name>.<domain name>l" failed: ERR=Authoritative answer for host
> Gary> not found.
>
> It looks like you have a DNS problem on the server.  What is your
> domain name and can you do:
>
>         nslookup server.some.domain
>
> and have it return correct results.  Check that in your configuration
> file(s) that you aren't using 'client' on the server end, but
> 'server.some.domain' on the client end, or visa-versa.  It might be
> just a simple oversight.  Also, compare it with a working client to
> see what's different.  Maybe you can see the difference when you
> compare the configs side by side, line by line.
>
> Gary> I can ping the server and the client by name from both
> Gary> ends. I've verified that the password is still correct. When I
> Gary> activate the tray monitor on the client, it shows the last
> Gary> several jobs. When I run bconsole on the client, it connects OK
> Gary> and I can run the backup job, but it again fails with the FD
> Gary> error (above).
>
> It would help if you could show the actual commands and log file
> entries.  Also look at /etc/* config files (since you're probably on a
> unix/linux system for the server) and make sure DNS in
> /etc/resolv.conf is setup properly.
>
> Showing how you run a job on working windows 7 client compared to this
> broken one would also be good.
>
> John
Thanks John. I finally got the time to sit down and figure it out. The 
server.domain lookup was OK but the client machine couldn't ping 
<server>.<domain>, just <server> so the connection was only working in 
one direction.

For some reason this machine needed a 
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file to make the connection to the 
server. Without it, it could ping the server by name but not by the full 
name.


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