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• FOG Problems

  Technical help directly related to FOG.
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  @Mdearmas I think I would start with your router. Look up the model and how to enable directed broadcasts, also look to see if there is any helper services that can be turned on to forward WOL packets to the target LAN. Your issue isn’t with FOG, but rather its a network infrastructure issue.

• Hardware Compatibility

  Problems with specific computer models.
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  @Donutsrule5

  OK lets see if we can boot from a usb drive. This tutorial will instruct you on how to build a usb boot image. https://forums.fogproject.org/post/69606 the google drive link below will take you to step 7 in the thread.

  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1psCrPVzBTvlakLkCMvhdoScAEZp1CKE6/view?usp=drive_link

  Once you build the usb boot drive, take the kernel and init.xz from your current version of fog and replace the ones on the flash drive with the ones in from the FOG server. The files are in /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe directory.

  Once you have the usb drive ready, pxe boot into the grub menu on the flash drive, then go into debug mode. After several pages of text you need to clear with the enter key you will be dropped at a fos linux command prompt. If you can get that far then fos linux is OK and the problem is probably with ipxe or the handoff between the two.

  If you want to image with the flash drive, schedule the task in the fog server BEFORE you usb boot and select option 1 from the menu. If you get it out of sequence you will get an error that says something about Null. Basically its saying you don’t have a task scheduled on the fog server so there is nothing to do. Lets see if we can get it to boot this way.

• Windows Problems

  Technical help related to a Windows Problem.
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  This is a bizarre one

  We have multiple printers deployed across multiple buildings without issue.

  However, in this one building, I have a weird issue
  I have a printer that will only show up for users that are configured as Domain Admin Accounts. For whatever reason, the standard users don’t have the printer listed in printers and scanners section in settings.

  I can’t figure out why this is happening

  These devices are in the same OU on the same network with other printers deploying correctly to standard and non standard accounts?

  VERY CONFUSED?

  Anyone know of a setting for some reason that would affect only one printer on a print server or in the printer settings itself for this one printer?

  The printer is a Kyocera MZ-4001ci

• Linux Problems

  Technical help related to a Linux Problem.

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  @marcolefo Sounds like the package ‘build-essential’ should be an install target of the FOG install script? It doesn’t seem to be.

  However I think my distro installs of Debian 12 and Mint 22.1 both installed that package by default.

• Mac Problems

  Technical help related to a Mac Problem.

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  @george1421 Hi,

  Thanks for your reply. Its strange. I am working with (almost exclusively) early 2012 hardware. My older Imacs 2009-2011 afaict pxe boot fine image with FOG w/o issue. The problem comes along when, I try to image our macbooks. They display different levels of progress before they flat out hang. I had one mbpx,y I’m almost sure it was a 3rd gen intel just can’t find it right now. I may be being processed to go out the door to our clients.

  Yes the 2019 verison of ipxe was executed from a boot of clonezill 3.1.x the version I would attempt to boot from ventory stick or from an imaged usb stick would display an error regarding not having efi capability and/or hang or return to the ventoy menu. If I just let them be long enough the MBP would just restart.

  So I did attempted to roll my own and ran into the same problem with the oobox downloadable iso/zip file. Hang… I am researching w/o much success with how clonezilla compiled their ipxe menu entry or how to just plain add efi capability to ipxe.iso/zip and burn it to a usb stick. I just am not knowledable enough to formulate a good question or find what I am looking for (cause I don’t know:))

  So thanks again for your reply. I have a large donations of older MBP’s coming just before the holidays and I would lik to be able to make it rain.

  Regards,

• General Problems

  General Developer questions relating to FOG.
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  Hey there,
  we are using our Fog Server since a long time.

  Now with Windows 11 24H2 we experiencing some strange issue.

  after getting the image to the computer our postdownloadscripts start working, mounting the ntfs partition where windows resides and copying the drivers to a specific location.

  We have noticed, that with a new golden master (with audit mode) the mount of the ntfs partition isnt working anymore the right way. We noticed that as we are checking some specific files in the windows folder as it is x86 or x64 architecture. In debug mode we had trouble to manually mount the partition with the ntfs-3g drivers. So we cannot check or copy anymore the drivers into the partition.

  Bitlocker is disabled in the golden master as with oobe it cannot seal with it activated. So this cannot be the problem.
  Maybe Windows did something to the NTFS Partitions in their new Windows 11 ISO ?

  I also checked if the new filesystem (reFS) is active but we have a classic NTFS partition.

  Anyone has the same problems ? Or does anyone have a solution for it ? New NTFS-3G drivers for the PXE or something like that ?

  Florian