7a5162d8-8939-42f0-b184-4d8637dc9ee2 Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Retrospect MultiServer Version 7.7.562 Unlimited Clients Windows Server 2008 R2 50 Macintosh clients 10 Windows Servers 5 Windows clients We have a network with a short DHCP lease. We have a vendor who manages our Retrospect backups for us. The vendor states that the short DHCP lease time makes Macintosh Retrospect clients on our network unavailable to backup when their IP addresses change, and the result is constantly tracking IP addresses of clients on the Server and/or removing re-adding clients on the server. My impression is that the Retrospect server and client should communicate any IP changes with little user intervention... The vendor is talking about us using DHCP reservations for users, yet I'd rather not do that if possible as we have limited IPs to hand out and a short lease time has helped us. What is the best practice for setting up Windows server and Macintosh clients so they communicate all the time? Thanks for any assistance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Just add the clients through "multicast" should work fine. Adding them by address will (of course) not work after an address change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7a5162d8-8939-42f0-b184-4d8637dc9ee2 Posted July 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 (edited) Just add the clients through "multicast" should work fine. Adding them by address will (of course) not work after an address change. Thanks for the info. The vendor now mentioned there is some issue with Macintosh DNS that limits the availability of Retrospect clients on the network: From the vendor: They don't know Macs have issues with dns name resolution? This would not work at all by name unless there were dhcp leases Any clue what they're talking about? Thanks. Edited July 13, 2011 by Layne123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted July 13, 2011 Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 I haven't got a clue what they imply. We have about a dozen Mac clients in Retrospect with no problems like yours. (But we run Retrospect 7.6, and had no problem when we ran 7.0 or 6.5 either.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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