Juergen Harms wrote:
>  > I think you misunderstood this. Nmblookup runs on the backuppc server,
>  > not each client, and it communicates with the native windows name
>  > resolution protocol
> 
> When I run nmblookup on the server, I expect a response to the broadcast 
> from clients, and in particular from Linux clients (which do not have 
> native windows name resolution). If I got it right, the nmbd daemon can 
> do that job, and this daemon is packaged into the samba-server.

Yes, nmbd should work, but I assumed your clients were windows.

> I tried: after installing the samba-server and adjusting the firewall 
> correspondingly I get the responses with the name-to-address mapping. 
> Did I misinterpret how it works?
> 
> Yes, I will have a look at installing a name server. But I wonder 
> whether a 10-line script (probably fewer lines) for occasionally 
> adjusting /etc/hosts is not much simpler.

Unless you have mobile laptops, why not just set static IP's on the 
clients?  Even if you can't exclude a range for statics in the DHCP 
server, most servers will try to ping an address to avoid giving out an 
already-used IP.  I suppose you could have a problem if a machine was 
turned off and it's IP was taken, but if you can assign all statics or 
exclude a range for them you should be safe.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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