Wayne Gemmell wrote:

> On Monday 14 April 2008 15:46:37 Paul Horn wrote:
>> Hosts with a dash in the name are not resolved by nmb-lookup. I  
>> ended up
>> putting reserved addresses in my local DHCP server so that such
>> workstations always receive a "known" ip when on my network, then  
>> made a
>> corresponding entry in /etc/hosts on the backuppc server.
>>
>
> I knew it wasn't a great plan hijacking another thread. The  
> workstations I am
> trying to debug are dude and bob2, no funny characters. The  
> nmblookup does
> work, it just doesn't seem to use the result in the rsync.

Have you read 'How BackupPC Finds Hosts'? 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#how_backuppc_finds_hosts

Nils Breunese.

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