Hi! What about some dynamic DNS service such as dyndns.org? There are clients for both windows and linux. Then you could sipmply give the dynamic DNS address to bacula.
Cheers, Johan Bill Szkotnicki wrote: > 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----- >> >> > -- Johan Ehnberg Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM: +358503209688 WWW: http://www.ehnberg.net/johan/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
