On 2/9/2011 2:59 PM, Michael Stowe wrote:
>
> I recommend making things simpler and easier -- just focus on ping.
> That's it.  Don't use DHCP in BackupPC's settings, and make sure the
> machine name BackupPC is looking for is the exact same machine name you're
> pinging.
>
> If that's done, and your machine responds to ping, it'll behave as you
> expect.

But note that you need to need to do the ping test from the backuppc 
server itself.  If the target is a windows box you can usually ping its 
netbios name successfully from another windows box even without dns 
because it will use one of the other windows name resolution mechanisms 
to find it.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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