BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] starting BackupPC evaluation

2014-03-11 09:42:11
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] starting BackupPC evaluation
From: Silver Salonen <silver.salonen AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:40:54 +0200
On 03/11/2014 03:37 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 03/11 03:04 , Silver Salonen wrote:
>> Using VPN would be a must anyway and my first thought on that was that
>> if nmblookup would work over VPN, it would be enough. Needs more
>> research and testing though :)
> 1. Don't trust BackupPC to work with nmblookup. While theoretically it
> works, It's a lot easier if you have DNS entries (maybe go with dynamic
> DNS).
> 2. I've always had awful luck getting nmb to work over a VPN. Theoretically
> that's what WINS is for; but like all Microsoft products, it tends to break
> unexpectedly and randomly.

At first glance it seemed that nmblookup is a must. But if not, then 
DDNS is even better :)

--
Silver

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