Well I wanted to run for a while to verify that all is working now.

The fix for me was to set the DHCP flag to 0 for my clients.  Even though they 
are dhcp, BackupPC work here with them set to non-dhcp.

Working perfectly now.

Many thanks for all of the help and info.


On Mar 5, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On 3/5/2010 2:51 PM, Summers, James B. II wrote:
>> 
>> So going through all of that it seems that ping will only work when it uses 
>> the DNS and nmblookup will only work with responses from the winserver?
>> 
>> Am I not naming the host correctly maybe?
>> 
>> The pc's I want to backup will actually sit on a different 10.x.x.x NAT 
>> network and will not have static entries.
>> 
>> Ideas?
> 
> I think it is supposed to use dns if the dhcp field in hosts is 0 and 
> nmblookup if it is 1.  You might be able to verify if that is the only 
> problem by temporarily setting ClientAlias to an IP address that you 
> know is connected.
> 
> Does your nmblookup work with just
> nmblookup host
> to find the names on the 10.x.x.x net?  And speaking of NAT, when you 
> connect from the client in the scenario that started this thread, does 
> the backuppc server see the IP that it is supposed to connect to, or 
> does something in between change the source address of the connection?
> 
> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
>    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
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