On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Magnus Larsson <magnus AT vista DOT se> wrote:
>
> I have no name server or other such function on my home LAN. All the
> machines are Linux, and I use rsync.
>
> Any advice on what to do? I need a simple and stable solution..:) I have
> read the backuppc documentation but find no real help there. Doing a
> nmblookup does not work:
>
> $ nmblookup zotec
> querying zotec on 192.168.1.255
> name_query failed to find name zotec
>
> There is nothing on 192.168.1.255 - or rahter, I do not know how to set
> things up so this works. Any help at all is warmly appreciated.....

If you had an nmbd running on the linux boxes (from the samba
package), it should answer the nmblookup queries.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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