--On Monday, September 05, 2011 3:35 PM -0700 Kenneth Porter 
<shiva AT sewingwitch DOT com> wrote:

> I'm setting up BackupPC to back up my Windows clients using rsync. I've
> installed cwRsync to the clients. BackupPC uses nmblookup to find the
> client's IP address given its Windows NETBIOS name.

> nmblookup finds the client by broadcast (the client responds with the
> record) but nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 says there's no record of it. (A query
> for the server's own record finds it, so I know the WINS service is at
> least working to that degree.)

Ah, I needed to look at the man page for nmblookup closer. Whenever you use 
-U for WINS queries, you must also use -R to force recursion. (If that's 
the case, why would one ever use -U without -R?)

So if you use WINS with BackupPC, you can use "nmblookup -U 
wins-server-address -R" as your host lookup function. If BackupPC is 
running on the same host as nmbd, use "nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 -R".


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