Awesome, I got a form of it working. However if I don’t have the Novell client installed on the computer, it will not map the drive. It tries, it just never succeeds. This should more than work for my student and staff images. Thanks a bunch!

I would just like to figure out how to map the drive without installing the Novell client, but that isn’t your problem 🙂

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 14267, member: 7271”]I forget which file to edit would be, but you just need to add the line:

net stop “FOG Service”

Before the SAD2 tools start running.

Then after it’s complete, put in the same script:

shutdown -r -t 10

So that the system will reboot automatically after the install of the drivers are complete. This will prevent the FOG Service from restarting the system automatically.[/quote]

Ah, I skipped that part. Works fine now, thanks!

I guess that’s how it’s supposed to work, but I’ve never tested it yet. Within every storage group all images from the “Master node” should be copied to the other nodes.

Do you also need to
[code]sudo touch /images/dev/.mntcheck[/code]

Ozzy - well done, great info. Like Jaymes Driver, I used your process (slightly edited for use in command line only Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) to compile a new kernel with SCSI drivers included, for working with VMWare SAS disk virtual machines. Thanks mate 🙂

P.S. add a few more screen shots and it’s good for the wiki!

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.