Kurt Jasper wrote:
>
> 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?

If you set the dhcp option to 0 in the backuppc host file and have some
other way of resolving the name (your /etc/hosts entery) it should not
try to use nmblookup.

--
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

>
> 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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