autodesk can be silently pushed, see their forums - [url]http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Installation-Licensing/Silent-install-for-Inventor-2012-viewer/td-p/3078092[/url]

Matlab can also be modified to be silently pushed (modifying the .ini) - [url]http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-184HZ/index.html?solution=1-184HZ[/url]

did you FogCrypt your password?

For the default domain name, I use the fully qualified domain name (fqdn), ex: mydomain.com
I leave the OU blank.
For the user name, I use the netbios domain name, which is the same as the first part of the fqdn, but you can use the fqdn also, PLUS my domain name.
For the password, it’s the user’s password FogCrypted.

It works for windows xp and windows 7 pro 32 and 64 bit.

We are running Windows Server 2008 R2 as our domain controllers, if that makes any difference.

Hi Bryce,

thanks for your help and assistance! It’s now working, the problem it would seem was permissions to the chain.c32 file and the pxelinux.0 file, all wokring now!

Cheers!

We have our fog server running on a Celeron machine with 4GB RAM and a WD Caviar Black 7.2k SATA drive. It has a 1GB link to the network and all clients have a 100Mbps link.

We roll out 10 machines at a time, and did an 18GB image on Friday in 15 minutes for 10. So our room of 22 finished in about 40 minutes.

So your spec should be fine.

I checked the client computer and the log file says “green fog failed to connect to fog server” I know the fog server is running and I turned off the firewall on the fog server for testing but still get the same message. Any ideas why the client can’t talk to the fog server? I can ping the server from the client

Server - Fog .32
Client - OS Windows 7

Here is part of the log;
[COLOR=#0000a0][FONT=Verdana]5/16/2012 7:32 AM FOG::GreenFog Attempting to connect to fog server…[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#0000a0][FONT=Verdana] 5/16/2012 7:32 AM FOG::GreenFog Failed to connect to fog server![/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#0000a0][FONT=Verdana] 5/16/2012 7:32 AM FOG::GreenFog The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#0000a0][FONT=Verdana] 5/16/2012 7:32 AM FOG::GreenFog at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadDataInternal(Uri address, WebRequest& request)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#0000a0][FONT=Verdana] at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadString(Uri address)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#0000a0][FONT=Verdana] at FOG.GreenFog.doWork()[/FONT][/COLOR]

I will remember that 🙂
Thank again.

We finally resolve the issue!! After trying all sort of upload methods, we finally thought something must be different in the way Dell loaded the original image. We reinstalled the factory image with another Dell install disk , and ran the upload task again. This time it was only grabbing the used space. We used the same method as all other images (multi partition re sizable ) When they imaged the disk from the factory, it must add some white space. Hope this helps!

you can also find some information here [url]http://www.vernalex.com/guides/sysprep/video.shtml[/url]
for creating universal images which can be used to deploy to machines which vary in configs.

PXE boot requests would need to be directed towards your FOG server. If an imaging task is scheduled, and the client is set to PXE boot, it will then begin the scheduled task. If no task is scheduled, you can have the FOG menu displayed for x seconds before booting into the client OS.

[URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Modifying_existing_DHCP_server_to_work_with_FOG’]Modifying existing DHCP server to work with FOG[/URL]

Definitely check out the FOG wiki when you have the time (bookmark it!). It is a great resource!

There is lots of information on the wiki. Teach a man to fish etc

thank you for the answer it was very helpful for me

[quote=“Carbonnier Alexandre, post: 3183, member: 1026”]Thanks , for your answer.

How can sysprepped correctly my computer ?

Thank you[/quote]
Any luck, Carbonnier?

Hi Amine,

Have you defined an image within Image Management, and associated this image with the client workstation?

Ahh okay… Will do 🙂 thanks for the suggestion.

Might this help?

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ubuntu_10.04#dhcp3-server_to_isc-dhcp-server[/url]

From my user account I just went in via su -