[BackupPC-users] can't find ip address

Hi,

I am using backuppc in a dhcp environment and while setting up a windows client, i am facing problems with backuppc. Its not able to detect the ip address of the machine.

In the client address, i place the machine name comp-076, using method rsyncd, list all the shares properly.

When i try to force backuppc to do a full backup, i see the following error.

Error: Can't find IP address for comp-076

comp-076 is a DHCP host, and I don't know its IP address. I checked the netbios name of x.x.x.x, and found that that machine is not comp-076.

Until I see comp-076 at a particular DHCP address, you can only start this request from the client machine itself.

Now when i try to lookup the dhcp address myself on the command line (as user backuppc), i get the reply properly

nmblookup comp-076
querying comp-076 on 172.20.255.255
172.20.196.251 comp-076<00>

Now i am confused here, when i can get the ip address using command line, why can't backuppc find the ip address ?

Any help on this will be appreciated.

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Thanks and Regards,

Anand

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