On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de> 
wrote:
> >
> actually, "host not found" is a failure to resolve the host name (by DNS and
> netbios).

Which might - or might not - still have something to do with a
firewall blocking the netbios response.   We are also assuming that
your virtualbox network is bridged so the target can be reached by the
backuppc server.

> The list of possible solutions is long, with the simplest
> being to add a line in /etc/hosts on the BackupPC server for the machine in
> question. If you have a DNS server on your network, you'd rather add it there,
> which may be slightly more complicated, but will give you network wide
> (consistent) resolution of the host name.

Another simple alternative to working DNS resolution is to set
ClientNameAlias to the target IP address.for each host that needs it.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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