Hi,

I'm still struggling to enable backuppc to backup on of my windows xp 
notebooks (Roadwarrior).

After my request a few days ago, I followed the tips mentioned there and 
    installed OpenVPN on the IPCop Firewall in order to have a secure 
connection from the Notebook (called x31) to the Backup Server (called 
ubuntu).
Installation of OpenVPN was really easy - thanks for the hint - goodbye 
hamachi :-)

I can ssh from x31 (notebook) to the server (ubuntu) using its local IP 
because of OpenVPN.

What I want:
To backup the Windows XP Notebook via OpenVPN using rsyncd.

Unfortunately I never got rsync working (using cygwin) and browsing the 
web, it seems that rsyncd is the preferred method.
But before I try to get Rsyncd working I would like to check if 
everything else is working and use the Samba-approach.

Problem: The notebook can not be found from the server.

Notebooks IP is: 10.128.2.10 and I've added a line to /etc/hosts:

        10.128.2.10     x31

~$ ping x31
PING x31 (10.128.2.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from x31 (10.128.2.10): icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=85.6 ms
...

Pinging x31 from the server is working, so there is a connection, but 
when trying to use nmblookup the notebook can not be found.

I tried both
# nmblookup x31
# nmblookup -B 10.128.2.255 x31

both commands retur: name_query failed to find name x31

Question:

Can someone give me some more information about how to get this done?

I've read the backuppc-manual but I think a complete walkthrough 
covering the task: 'Backup from Windows over a VPN using rsyncd' would 
be really great - and I'm willing to write this but before that, I need 
to know how to setup rsyncd and why my notebook can be pinged but 
nmblookup return an error.

Any help would be great and thanks for the hint to use OpenVPN, great 
piece of software (like backuppc (of course))

kind regards

Kurt Jasper



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