On 03/21/2011 03:18 AM, Travis Fraser wrote:
> 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.
>
That's the thing, I don't really control it, it's an ADSL router 
provided by my internet provider, I can't even change the IP range.

Cheers,
Gabriel

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