Sorry oscar. I should have read it more carefully before the flip answer.

Use the FQDN everywhere for networker useage. Don't use www for the host
name or the alias. If you use the FQDN at both ends of the networker link
you won't have any problems.  The only purpose for the host name is a
shorthand way for two machines to find each other.

In this case, you shouldn't use www in the host name in Windows either as it
will confuse windows machines that are looking for www.  If you are using an
NT4.0 compatible active directory, both machines will advertise the same
name in netbios causing confusion in your windows network (assuming your W2K
network is running as backwards compatible with NT4).



-----Original Message-----
From: Oscar Olsson [mailto:spam1 AT QBRANCH DOT SE]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:09 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] FQDN clients?


(Thanks for the answer to my last question, Dale!)

I am using NetWorker to back up different customers machines. If customer
A has a machine called "www.customera.com" (Windows NT/2000) and customer
B has a machine "www.customerb.com", both machines have the hostname
"www". The documentation suggests that one should specify clients as the
FQDN name, but have the hostname only as an alias (and adds both names to
/etc/hosts or similar on the backup server). This is fine when one adds
clients with different hostnames, but if they share the same host name (in
this case, both machines are called "www"), one can't add both, since both
will have the alias www, and thus cause a naming collision.

So how is this resolved? Should one specify "www.customera.com" as the
hostname and leave the DNS domain name field blank in the windows host
name configuration tab on a windows machine? Will this work? Is there a
better solution? If one does the above, will it break something, like AD
or similar?

//Oscar

Ps. Sorry for all the questions, but these
have been bugging me for quite some time now,
and I haven't been able to find a good answer
myself.

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