Take a look at the Location Plugin - https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Plugins

It allows you to have a “master” FOG server that you could point all clients to (in terms of the FOG client installed on the computers), but have them image from the server at their building. If you have a computer at your office for repair, you could also switch its location while it’s there to image and then switch it back once it’s returned to the building. We use this plugin very successfully with 24 sites, although we only have two FOG servers total since our WAN links are all 1Gb or better.

@Wayne-Workman

That’s also in the works. Again, it’s for the stop gap in between time. The clients are laptops that students roam with, and due to them being on wireless with cached logins, group policy takes longer than I’d like to roll out.

I’ll throw it into PDQ deploy though, that should handle it pretty fast. Thanks for your help and input!

I switched this back to a normal topic as opposed to an unsolved/solved question. This is something trying to get information on a new version of fog and the title is far too vague to give a proper “answer”. Even if it asked when 1.3.0 was going to be released its still not a Solve/Unsolve question. I prefer to use the solved/unsolved questions for bugs and/or features.

@Tom-Elliott

Ok so you would recommend switching to the latest version from the trunk of the repo? I will try that tomorrow.

Yes, I exchanged all the IP addresses with hostnames because my FOG server has different IP addresses depending on the NIC the client is connected to. I think it will work once the dns system works properly with the dns server address provided by the DHCP server.

I keep you updated when I tried with the latest version.

Thanks
Marcel

@sayeed said:

Hi Wayne,

i have installed fog on 250Gb Hdd in my local system, which is not sufficient space for me to save all the images.that’s why i have mounted my NAS storage /storage on fog server.but im unable to configure my /storage on fog,kindly provide the guide to mount my storage on fog…or provide the notes for make softlink between fog and my NAS so that i can save multiple images on NAS.

Linux cannot re-export a directory that is already remote. You shouldn’t mount the NAS on the fog server itself.

You should configure it as a storage node in the FOG web GUI, and create an NFS share on the NAS and an FTP user with full access to that share.

in the NFS share, there should be /storage/.mntcheck and /storage/dev/.mntcheck

/storage should be read only, /storage/dev should be read write.

FTP needs full access to the entire /storage directory.

Depending on the type of NAS (like Synology), you will need to move to FOG Trunk (like Tom said).

@robza No problem.

If you need any help just let me know, I will see what I can whip up.

@Cyrus So you haven’t actually installed any sql services?
I would just add the packages reccomended by the wiki ignoring any errors because some of them are just outdated…

rpm --import http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-5.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm rpm --import http://rpms.famillecollet.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

Then manually install these packages

yum -y install htmldoc ttf2pt1 t1utils fltk subversion wget git

Then make a folder for the fog installer git and cd into it, download fog, and install it, for example…
(replace ‘fog’ with your username if you are going to let the installer create the fog user for you)

mkdir /home/fog/fogInstalls mkdir /home/fog/fogInstalls/git cd /home/fog/fogInstalls/git git clone https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject.git ./ #this part will take a little while cd bin ./installfog.sh # follow the prompts # Then configure the firewall per this post (https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6162/firewall-configuration) for service in http https tftp ftp mysql nfs mountd rpc-bind proxy-dhcp samba; do firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=$service; done systemctl restart firewalld.service

Then whenever you need to update

cd /home/fog/fogInstalls/git git pull cd bin ./installfog.sh -Y

and that’s all there is to it.

@Tom-Elliott
Thanks again as always!

@Jaymes-Driver Reminds me of my time in the Army.

Particularly

NCO Creed
No one is more professional than I. I am a noncommissioned officer, a leader of Soldiers. As a noncommissioned officer, I realize that I am a member of a time honored corps, which is known as “The Backbone of the Army”. I am proud of the Corps of noncommissioned officers and will at all times conduct myself so as to bring credit upon the Corps, the military service and my country regardless of the situation in which I find myself. I will not use my grade or position to attain pleasure, profit, or personal safety.

Competence is my watchword. My two basic responsibilities will always be uppermost in my mind—accomplishment of my mission and the welfare of my Soldiers. I will strive to remain technically and tactically proficient. I am aware of my role as a noncommissioned officer. I will fulfill my responsibilities inherent in that role. All Soldiers are entitled to outstanding leadership; I will provide that leadership. I know my Soldiers and I will always place their needs above my own. I will communicate consistently with my Soldiers and never leave them uninformed. I will be fair and impartial when recommending both rewards and punishment.

Officers of my unit will have maximum time to accomplish their duties; they will not have to accomplish mine. I will earn their respect and confidence as well as that of my Soldiers. I will be loyal to those with whom I serve; seniors, peers, and subordinates alike. I will exercise initiative by taking appropriate action in the absence of orders. I will not compromise my integrity, nor my moral courage. I will not forget, nor will I allow my comrades to forget that we are professionals, noncommissioned officers, leaders!

I referenced this in my other post, but this fixed my issues as well. Thanks!
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6536/windows-10-after-upload-partition-erased/11

@KKTwenty101 I finally got this to work by updating the bios on my marvel/yukon nic machines.
PXE took off immediately afterwards. Just an option to try.

well as far as “stable” goes ive been using build 5370 for 3 months. Ive rolled out a couple of hundred windows 8.1 images - all of which are unattended from lan boot -> AD joined “ctrl-alt-del” screen (I use snappydriver via a script on OOBE boot).

I guess later trunk have other fixes but since that build worked for me (and works for me) I have no reason to update yet. I’d give trunk a test in your lab and decide for yourself; it is a world away from 1.2 - if only for the speed increase (not quite double the speed but I’d be surprised if you don’t notice it)

@Wayne-Workman
Hi Wayne, sorry been running around abit here lately for the mounting i am using nfs and in the exports:
/images *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=1)
Hopefully helps others out.

@Tom-Elliott well done,
works like a charm.
Regards

@Wayne-Workman Thank you! I will try to convert the batch to an .exe file.

@Tom-Elliott Added here: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_Client#Maintain_Control_of_hosts_when_building_new_server

@EAHarvey Several programs have found no issues with the drive.

@Wayne-Workman Cannot do this right now as I only have 1 netbook in my Office but will give it ago when I can.

Anyone else have an idea why I get this error when trying to deploy an image? https://forums.fogproject.org/uploads/files/1452520756237-error.jpg

Thanks again.

@Wayne-Workman Thanks for that pointer, that will definitely help in getting started in this. I am learning how to do simple sql queries in PS and VBscript to try and accomplish this but none of them would work without this part.

@cbemerine https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/1341/requests-for-wiki-access-ask-here/107