cccc Posted April 22, 2008 Report Share Posted April 22, 2008 Hello. I recently migrated to a DHCP network and I'm consistently loosing connections to my backup clients. What is the best way to configure Retrospect to connect to backup clients on a DHCP network (changing hostnames and IP addresses). Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted April 22, 2008 Report Share Posted April 22, 2008 use DHCP assignment from a DHCP static map by MAC addresses (rather than from a dynamic pool) so that each MAC address always gets the same IP address. That also makes your management easier because the hostnames won't change. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cccc Posted April 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2008 Unfortunately, I have no control over the DHCP configuration. Is there a way to configure this in Retrospect to make it network independant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 22, 2008 Report Share Posted April 22, 2008 Why not just login the clients with Multicast or subnet broadcast? It fully supports DHCP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRIS Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 (changing hostnames and IP addresses). It becomes somewhat difficult if your PCs change their hostnames all the time. Can this be pinned down so that it doesn't change? How does Active Directory cope with all the PCs having their names randomly changed like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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