urza311 Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 In my office, I use fixed addresses for every computer that gets remotely backed up via Retrospect. This can be a bit of a problem for my laptop users, as then when they go offsite and try to hook into a public wired or wireless network, they have to monkey with all their settings to get DHCP operational again -- and, of course, when they come back, I have to restore fixed IP addresses. It's a big pain in the butt. And I wish I didn't have to do it. Do I? Is there some way that Retrospect (6, on the Mac) can be setup so that clients (both Windows XP and Mac OS X) can use DHCP settings? A script or something that makes the client check in with the server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltr Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 hi urza, yes, this should work right out of the box unless your network is not allowing multicast. you should be able to install Retrospect server on a computer and then the Client on another and do a 'configure->clients->network' and pick it up. on another note: why aren't you using 'locations' in OS X? http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tg.online/osx/new_location/html/new_location01.html seems like a no brainer. you may be able to do something like that in Windows too. why make things hard for yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 Check out the following articles: "Advanced Networking" pp 171-175 EMC Dantz Retrospect User's Guide, version 7.0 http://kb.dantz.com/display/2/kb/article.asp?aid=7929&n=29&s= "Advanced Networking" pp 119-123 Dantz Retrospect User's Guide, version 6.5 http://kb.dantz.com/display/2/kb/article.asp?aid=1117&n=28&s= How do I find out the IP address of a client so I can access it directly? KB Article #6099 http://kb.dantz.com/display/2/kb/article.asp?aid=6099&n=12&s= Retrospect and DHCP Clients KB Article #5886 http://kb.dantz.com/display/2/kb/article.asp?aid=5886&n=8&s= "Mac OS 7/8/9 clients don’t renew DHCP leases while waiting for shutdown" EMC Retrospect 7.5 for Windows Read Me http://kb.dantz.com/display/2/kb/article.asp?aid=8331&n=1&s= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clinton Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 none of these links will work for me. I get errors like this: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14' [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver] Line 1: Incorrect syntax near '='. /display/2/kb/article.asp, line 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltr Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 hi clinton, mine works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 The first two links are wrong. The correct link for article ID# 7929 (7.0 user guide) is: http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=7929&p=2 and the correct link for article 1117 (6.5 user guide) is: http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=1117&p=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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