Re: [BackupPC-users] help with Error: Can't Find IP address for HP-PC-XP

three_jeeps wrote:
> 
> three_jeeps wrote:
>> Perhaps somebody can explain what this problem is and how to solve it.
>> I have a Debian machine running BackupPC and a windows xp machine that I 
>> want to back up.  Both machines are on a small local network served by a 
>> router.  I have a 3rd machine on the network, running Ubuntu server 
>> (192.168.0.108) as a webserver, but NOT serving the Backup PC pages (they 
>> are on the Debian box). The Debian and XP machines have statically mapped IP 
>> addresses, done by the router via matching MAC addresses in a table of 
>> corresponding IP addresses (192.168.0.2 (HP-PC-XP), 192.168.0.3 (Debian).   
>> The Ubuntu machine is also statically mapped to an IP address.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Whoops, I made an error.  The ubuntu server is at IP address 192.168.0.110.
> 
> the Debian box is 192.168.0.108, not 0.3...
> 
> The error I see from backuppc says: ' HP-PC-XP is a DHCP host, and I do not 
> know its IP address.  I check the netbios name of 192.168.0.108 (e.g. the 
> Debian box that is running backuppc) and found that that machine is not 
> HP-PC-XP.
> Until I see HP-PC-XP at a particular DHCP address you caon onl start t his 
> request from the client machine itself.'
> 

If they have static addresses but aren't in DNS, a quick fix is to configure 
the 
ClientAlias setting to the IP address and turn off the dhcp option.  Or, if you 
connect from the web browser on HP-PC-XP and start the backup through the web 
interface it should work.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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