In our case the main computing services centre insists upon dynamic IP's for all workstations. I did read about setip in the manual but I am not sure it is implemented in the windows version. And I also don't know how to implement it in windows FD. Does anyone else have a suggestion?
Michel Meyers wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bill Szkotnicki wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am experimenting with using a linux server with bacula ( director and >> storage ) to backup windows clients on our network. >> I works well! >> BUT >> When the windows client machine is turned off for a long time it is >> possible for it to get a new IP address from DHCP and then the backups >> stop working because the director config file has the Address hard coded. >> Is there any remedy for this? >> > > Hmm, I know there's a command called 'setip' that's supposed to allow > clients to communicate their IP to the directory, but I have no clue how > to impement it. > > In my case, I've simply told the clients to update the nameserver with > their IPs and supplied their DNS names to Bacula. > > Greetings, > Michel > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFGEoQu2Vs+MkscAyURApa4AKDaaMIej0TdDEw0fAhbOhOZP9SBQgCffWEy > yXq5sByde8MHGZa9A68CbT0= > =GnTJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Bill Szkotnicki Department of Animal and Poultry Science University of Guelph [EMAIL PROTECTED] (519)824-4120 Ext 52253 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
