Mardon Posted January 13, 2013 Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 My network uses DHCP and the server machine was assigned a new ip address after a recent power outage. My shared catalog was formerly at 192.168.2.17\NetCatalog. The server machine is now 192.168.2.15. How do I get the Daminion client to open the Shared Catalog? I can't find any way to change the ip address of the shared catalog to the new server ip. Can anyone help? Shouldn't catalogs use the machine name instead of the hard-coded ip address in order to avoid this problem? I guess I figured it out. I added a "new" catalog with the new ip address of192.168.2.15 and it seems to have retrieved the previous shared catalog. I can then delete what is now the incorrect catalog at 192.168.2.17. This seems very awkward though. For networks with dynamically assigned ip addresses it seems like names should be used; not ip numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsmith1 Posted January 13, 2013 Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 I would also vote for Daminion using name resolution so that machine names can be used as well as IP addresses. Having said that, though, in this specific case I would recommend using a reservation on your DHCP server so that important machines can still benefit from DHCP but have predictable, essentially static, addresses. I have done this with my key machines and find it works very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe Posted January 13, 2013 Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 Yes it works in that way. I gave the server its own IP address in the router to avoid such problems. Regards, Uwe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rene Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 an other thing, Daminion could use the MAC-Address of the Devices, or all three (MAC, IP and Name). What ever he finds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 You can specify a server name instead of its IP address, for example: mediaserver or localhost It should works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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