Darren Dunham wrote:

You are lucky enough to have access to all your clients.  Sometimes I do
not (backup for other clients, require administrator rights in AD, ...)

Another technique (at least on a unix server) is to create a temporary
entry in the /etc/hosts file with the client name pointing to a bogus
address.  The connection will fail in a similar manner, and you don't
have to touch the client.

This in turn assumes you have root access on your NetWorker server.  :-)
In many environments this is not the case, and as an example a recent
customer of mine required us to go through a long-winded change control
procedure to change a hosts file entry.

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