On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 18:06 +0100, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:

> Hi Tamas,
> 
> not really, I must not have explained myself correctly. I have a local 
> network with a server that backs up our laptops. The laptops use DHCP to 
> get their IPs, they are Macs and Linux laptops. For my example I will 
> use a notebook called "myNotebook". It can't be resoved using DNS 
> resolution, but nmblookup can find it. 

If you control the DHCP server, why not assign a known IP address to
each of the laptops? Then use either DNS, or put the laptop entries into
the hosts file on the backuppc server.

-- 
Travis Fraser <travis AT snowpatch DOT net>


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