hmseiden Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 After installation, there are two appearances of my Local Computer with two different IPs, one the local IP (seemingly correct) of the computer, the other an IP 127.0.0.0. Any idea why this is? Seems to automatically be there after installation- I tried it twice. Does the fact that I am using NAS shared drive (a USB drive attached to my wireless base station) as a source have something to do with this? I checked to see if one was the client by turning off / removing the Client app from the local computer. That clearly wasn't the cause and it did create havoc, causing a complete reinstall of Retro's other components (kind of expected...). My set up is detailed below (signature line). Let me know if more detail is needed. A screen shot is attached showing the Sidebar in the console screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 (edited) After installation, there are two appearances of my Local Computer with two different IPs, one the local IP (seemingly correct) of the computer, the other an IP 127.0.0.0. Any idea why this is? Seems to automatically be there after installation- I tried it twice. (1) It's clear from your screen shot that you are running Retrospect 8.x. This is the wrong forum for Retrospect 8 questions. Try here: Retrospect 8 forums (2) you are seeing the expected, normal behavior. Your local computer does have multiple IP addresses, as do all. 127.0.0.1 is the "localhost" IP, by which processes on your local computer can talk to other processes on the local computer via IP. Retrospect 8.x uses that for the Retrospect console to talk to the Retrospect engine when they both are on the same computer. I suggest you read the manual. Oops, there is no manual. Sorry. Does the fact that I am using NAS shared drive (a USB drive attached to my wireless base station) as a source have something to do with this? No. See above. If you want to see the interfaces on your computer and their IP addresses, in terminal, use the commands ifconfig and netstat (netstat, by default, shows hostnames rather than IP addresses - e.g., localhost rather than 127.0.0.1) Russ Edited July 8, 2009 by Guest correct typo in ifconfig name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 you are seeing the expected, normal behavior Having two listings of the same machine is not normal or necessary. Just use the "-" button at the bottom of the General pane of the Retrospect Preferences to delete one and retain the one you want; either keep the LAN address (if it's static on that machine), or keep the localhost address if your engine machine is running on a machine w/DHCP (probably not a good idea in general). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmseiden Posted July 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 Thanks for your info Dave, and Russ. I did seemingly post in the Retro 8 thread (Retro products>Desktop Workgroup, Server sub-group is now in that thread). Sorry if it got reposted by someone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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