@astrugatch said in See last time a computer checked into FOG:

----------------------------------UserTracker--------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9/17/2019 3:06 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.16 9/17/2019 3:06 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 9/17/2019 3:06 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.5.7 9/17/2019 3:06 PM Middleware::Response Success ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is all perfectly fine - Response Success as you see.

@TammyTinkleToes90

It’s possible the previous admin scheduled a daily image deployment that contains a broken NIC driver. (check scheduled tasks)
The second possibility is a snapin that is done every day. (check snapins)

Check fog client hostname settings

Some devices have somewhat buggy UEFI firmware, especially with network boot. BIOS update might help.

Oh… I didnt even think about it that way. Especially that we have the “locked” state for the same purpose, prevent accidental deletion. Actually it is a double of the double protection. Not truly bad, but… strange design.

@zaboxmaster Lets switch over to IM chat because there are a few questions I have. Look at the chat bubble and the top-right of the forum tool bar

@Sebastian-Roth i understand the reasoning for not updating it. i’m hoping to have a chance to help with testing by the end of the week.

Hello,

I have now configured the samba and now is the setup starting.
But it takes nearly 8 minutes until the setup prompt is shown.

Because I am not a linux expert there can be one or two little mistakes. I trie to discribe my samba setup.

Debian 10

first installed the samba

sudo apt-get install samba -y

then save the config

sudo mv /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.orig

create a new config

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

(yes I need a little bit gui support)

then I created a smbuser and gave him a password

sudo useradd -s /bin/false smbuser sudo smbpasswd -a smbuser

my smb.conf file

[global] workgroup = smb security = user map to guest = never [homes] comment = Home Directories browsable = no read only = no create mode = 0750 [Windows10] valid users = smbuser #Wir beschränken den Zugriff auf den User ''smbuser'' #valid users = @smbusers #Alternativ kann auch auf eine Benutzergruppe eingeschränkt werden path = /images/os/mswindows/10Pro-x64/ public = no writable = yes comment = Windows 10 Setup-Ordner printable = no guest ok = no create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700

then I assigned the smbuser to my directory and gave him rights

sudo chown -R smbuser:smbuser /images/os/mswindows/10Pro-x64/ sudo chmod 700 /images/os/mswindows/10Pro-x64/

and at least I restarted the smb

sudo systemctl restart smbd.service

I customized the startnet.cmd(WinPE) for my smbuser and thats it.

I have run a test installation on my old client and it completed successfully.
But the start of my setup takes realy long…

Did anybody see a mistake or has a optimization for me?

(I found the discription for the samba in the german Thomas-Krenn-Wiki: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Einfache_Samba_Freigabe_unter_Debian and https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Samba_Freigabe_mit_Authentifizierung )

MfG
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@khanhvd21 Take a look at the apache and php-fpm logs (see my signature) and post those here.

Which version of FOG do you have and how many clients are in your network with fog-client software installed? Is this a single master node setup or do you have one or more storage nodes?

@gaelds Any news on this?

Thinking a bit more about your request I wonder about something. Where have those 700 PCs being used before? They seem to have Windows and the fog-client software installed. So my guess is they were in use maybe in a different department. Were they connected to that exactly same FOG server ever before?

I have found a bit of time to test this myself and I cannot replicate your issue as described. What I did is: Imported a single host via CSV, started the client and watched the fog.log and saw that it connected and renamed perfectly well.

So I guess Quazz is on the right track here. Please let us know what you find.

Thank you. This will help answering some questions on my end.

No, no, sorry for not clarifying. It’s just an open question, because I’ll do it, but we don’t know if it would work or not. 😄

Thanks for clarifying George. I will do and test and if we encounter any error or problem, i will ask here for support. Thanks again!!! 🙂

Regards.

@astrugatch Good to hear! Thanks.

@toanns35 FOG 0.32 is more than 8 years old (!!) and shouldn’t be used anymore. Ask yourself, would you choose to install Windows 98 on current hardware? If you still want to use version 0.32 it’s up to you but we won’t give you any support on this. We are trying to improve FOG working on the most current version and help people to upgrade to recently new version.

FOG (1.5.7 as of now) definitely runs in VM. Though there are different technologies and I can’t speak for all of them. I use VirtualBox for testing, I know people running it in VMware while others have XenServer and Hyper-V. Search the forums or ask here if you have specific questions.

@toanns35 Welcome to the forums! Great you find this helpful. The search definitely does a great job.

FOG including the forums, wiki and so on are just as good as people help organizing it. We highly appreciate people engaging and actually need help to keep it all up to date. It might look like there are many people involved but at the moment it’s just a handful and way too less. See my signature… 🙂

@george1421 said in FAQ page in WIKI should be updated:

@Luc-Novales So let me understand even with the 486 kernel it does not boot, I would expect an error message as in the picture provided.

I made a report of actions in initial thread more adapted…
Black screen and blinking cursor after vesamenu

Thx,
Luc.

@brakcounty It contains all of the exportable items and more (like deployment history, inventory, snapin groups, and other things I can’t remember without looking). The fog database is everything except the raw image data stored in /images. With the metadata (mysql database) and the raw image files in /images you can rebuild your fog server from a fresh install.

@george1421 I confirm that exist powershell template :D:D:D .

@ayashkam You can do it, The automated snapin execution is basic for me, my images are living entities and my software requirements continously changes (Education environment with more than 250 different sites and more than 15.500 computers).

I have my image’s configured to install fogclient and start it on the first boot, you can do it with the unattended deployment procedures (setupcomplete.cmd) for example if you sysprep the images or use other ways like scheduling it at start up.

I download the installer with the postdownloadscript to ensure that the current version is installed. Take care because at the moment that you run the service the snapins start to be executed, you can have problems with another installations or the configuration can be disrupted by needed reboots. You know your systems and must take the cautions needed.

@sudburr Just so you’re aware - we are still working on the 1.5.x version of FOG. Long term aim is to finish that, merge all the things into the 1.6 branch (Tom does this every now and then with all the fixes we add in 1.5.x) but we’ll most certainly release one or two more 1.5.x versions before we call it “finished”.

What version of FOG?

The 500 error is from apache, you might want to inspect the apache error logs in /var/logs.

If you had ubuntu installed, I might think that ubuntu has applied a patch and secured the database, but you are using fedora so that’s probably not the issue. But again, check the apache error logs first.

@mike-S Your simple question has a lot of content behind it.

Fog does have a function to install applications or run programs on the target computer. Fog doesn’t care about applications or customization. That is up to the IT Tech to properly configure. Must windows application support MSI installation. This MSI installations support command line options to configure the application. Other applications (like adobe acrobat reader) have a customization program that creates a profile ini file that is used during application installation to configure the applications. MS Office has a similar configuration tool.

So can FOG deploy applications, yes. Can FOG deploy application customizations, yes (as long as the application has been preconfigured). Can FOG customize applications, No.

If you would have mentioned the application there may be instructions online about how to configure. If you want to google yourself, search for “Unattended install” and your application name.