Hi,

create a cron job from fog and check crontab entries to see what it does.

Greetz X23

Hi,

[quote=“Blackout, post: 3723, member: 1”]The client (including the snapin dll) has not been recompiled yet. This will be done when 0.33 is released.[/quote]

[quote=“variable205, post: 3753, member: 359”]Excellent :)[/quote]

Here we go…

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/silent-install-of-the-fog-service-client-given-hostname-or-ip.4323/[/url]

i have recompiled the msi pakage for two ways,
faster snapinclient.dll & faster snapinclient.dll and no fog tray autostart entry.

See attachments.

Greetz X23

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/323_FOG Service Installer_fastsnapinclient.zip?:”]FOG Service Installer_fastsnapinclient.zip[/url][url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/324_FOG Service Installer_fastsnapinclient_noautostart.zip?:”]FOG Service Installer_fastsnapinclient_noautostart.zip[/url]

If you are running it on ESXi, go to your web browser and goto the IP address of your ESXi server. On the right hand side, you can “Browse datastores in this host’s inventory” which is an option on the right side of the screen. Once you authenticate to the server, you can browse the datastore and backup your VM.

OR

if you have the vshpere client installed. You can browse your datastore from within the program and download the VM to an external drive with the datastore manager.

[quote=“Paul Trevathan, post: 9845, member: 3006”]Hi Brian,
This is looking good, just to confirm is this on a windows 2012 server x64 running VMware of Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.1 x64.
Cheers
Paul.[/quote]

I tested everything on 2008 R2 x64 running Hyper-V and once that all worked i migrated everything over to real machines. the server 2008 R2 was a in use as a DHCP server/WDS/… and the fog machine was put on a T110 II server with 14 gigs of ram

Or for command line installation

[url]http://schoolitexpert.com/network-tools/fog/306-install-fog-server[/url]

[quote=“Matt Harding, post: 8998, member: 1207”]Check Andyroo54’s tutorial here: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-to-make-a-simple-snapin-start-to-finish.304/[/url]

The example snapin is Adobe Reader X

Where his example scripts call for “REGEDIT /S” though, I would recommend instead using “REG IMPORT” but maybe that’s just me. “REGEDIT /S” just didn’t work for me so I used REG instead.[/quote]

Yeah I need to fix that, don’t use regedit /s, it doesn’t work 🙂

Hello
i’m very sorry to come back “so late”, i just didn’t have time to schedule this project. Now i’m busy with my branch.

Here is the infrastructure

France LAN (wan link with VPN) Abroad LAN
FOGserver ====== [ firewall ] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: [ firewall ] ======= FOGstorage

I ran the installation on the remote ubuntu server to create a storage node. This one is not listed at the moment in my french FOGserver.

[URL=‘http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOGUserGuide#Advanced_Installations’]When reading the provided link abode (http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOGUserGuide#Advanced_Installations) i understand i have to create multiple tftp servers, because i have a VPN link, and both LANs are not on the same IP address range. But my abroad server can ping my french master FOG server.[/URL]
I’ll continue to write down what i do as i used to do with windows 7 :)[URL=‘http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOGUserGuide#Advanced_Installations’][/URL]

Oh, don’t forget to change your IP settings if you do step 8
[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Change_FOG_Server_IP_Address[/url]

This is a change from 0.31 to 0.32 you have to use 0.31 for this patch to work. It work great on a 0.31 system for me along with some other modifications we can image machines all on the remote network with very little WAN traffic.

[quote=“Al@akuni, post: 5649, member: 250”]Sure - although I realised after I gave them to the last guy in this thread that the snapin might need some customization for your environment. When the shutdown or reboot starts, an on-screen message pops-up that says “Your computer is being restarted remotely by <my organisation’s IT support>. You have thirty seconds to save your work.”
lete me know your email address if you want andI can get in touch.[/quote]

That’s good of you cheers. PM sent.

Leroy, Technical questions go in the Help forum. This part of the forum is only for requests for tutorials or comments on the tutorial, not asking for help.

Bill -

I’m new to FOG, a complete newbie on LINUX, but fairly well versed with the MS world. I have just come up with a way to enhance FOG snapin deployment using DFS. I had assumed the rsync stuff I’ve seen would get me replicas of the images on different storage nodes, but I want redundancy and multiple sources at each site for snapins. Further, I find the whole single-file installation limitation of FOG untenable. I can’t have software installation content stuffed into a single file, as most SW in the MS world consists of several files.

So I wrote a program called FOGExe.exe. It leverages the TFTP site where a FOGExe.ini file is stored that has the sharename (DFS or UNC), username and password for accessing the Windows server. A parameter in the snapin parameter field points to the dir within the share and the program looks there for a specific .cmd file - FOGExe.cmd. This cmd has all the commands you’d want to perform the snapin installation. I typically put two versions of an installation in such directories - one to install and the other to repair.

This program is brand new and has been only lightly tested. As I’m new to FOG, I can’t say I won’t enhance this more over the next little while. I’m using FOG now as a replacement for a homegrown system that used BartPE for XP and WInBuilder for Win7 to create ISO that were PXEbooted and uncasted images with Ghost32. For software deployment we had a system that could detect if someone was logged in and would allow for interactive and silent installation. I may want to retain this feature and it would be easy to add it to FOGExe.

If this is of any interest to you, I’ll post it sooner rather than later. I had planned to post it but as I said, it’s new. I’d appreciate any info related to your problem with syncing Linux storage repositories over WAN and how one mounts DFS on a Linux box. Also, why use the Linux bos for TFTP at all? If you can copy the contents of the linux tftpboot dir to windows? I’ve used pxelinux.0 and pxeclient.cfg on windows for some time.

I’m not sure how these forums work, so I’ll check back here for a response.

I didn’t know about the mobile site.
I should say users can logon to mobile site with no problem.
Thanks

Thank you! And also thanks for pointing out the CD and floppy drive options too