On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:25 AM, haruspex <princeps.candidus AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Name resolution, via nmblookup. IP addresses are assigned via DHCP, so
> subject to change. So you are saying that connection would have
> established fine, but it tries to establish it with a wrong place?..
> An interesting idea. Now, how can the result of the BackupPC name
> resolution can be checked?..

You just need to test things the same way to figure out what is wrong.
 If dchp is set in the backuppc host file entry, backuppc should be
using nmblookup to find the name.   For a quick check if things work
otherwise, you can put the current IP address in ClientNameAlias - and
if that makes backups work your problem is with name resolution.
There may be some things you can configure in the samba setup (like a
WINS server if you have one) to improve name resolution, or if the
hosts don't roam much you might be able to assign reserved IPs in
DHCP.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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