When the machine boots does it pull the pxe menu, or does it error out and continue booting to the OS?

In the past with certain revisions of Ubuntu, we had to doctor some services to start on each reboot. I would not be surprised to find that a service was not started properly on boot.

Start by verifying that the apache and tftp services are running.

[code]sudo service apache2 restart
sudo service tftpd-hpa restart[/code]

Try to navigate to the fog management UI, did the web page display? Pxe boot a machine, does the menu appear? can you register the machine to the fog server?

You may need to separate the Network into different scopes and filter the broadcasts to allow this to work.

One of the biggest drawbacks to Multicast/UDP packets is they don’t care who’s receiving them, and don’t care who it’s intended for. It just “blasts” data. This blast is then picked up by EVERY system on the network. Seeing as imaging will continuously send packets of data out, it’s literally self DoSing your networking.

Sorry for not responding. Been out with a stomach bug. I checked the php.ini file and it is blank

Nope, but it is pretty close. Right now I’m implementing the new encryption system. Once that is done a usable beta should be ready, but a lot of polishing needs to be done before a final release (the small things that make the client more professional and easier to use).

Good luck, you only need dnsmasq if you need to resolve to your file, if lets say for some reason your offered file is not received completely.

I use dnsmasq because there are IP helpers in my network that over ride my dhcp settings. I also use an out dated netware environment that has limitations on the boot file name length.

This length issue is also present in dnsmasq, that is why you have to symlink undionly.kpxe to undionly.0

Yes it is true that in the ltsp.conf file you have supplied the boot file name in its entirety, but when we began working to provide the undionly.kpxe as a boot file name, dnsmasq still had limitations. I do not know if these limitations are still present.

I hate to see you give up on trying to get dnsmasq to work, I feel it’s a wonderful solution, and with the use of dnsmasq you do not need to even edit the dhcp information to include the fog server or it’s boot file, dnsmasq works as a proxy dhcp server and issues the proper boot information to the client. If you choose to take it up again, dnsmasq that is, I would be happy to help you troubleshoot.

I reset the permissions of /images and everything under it to 777 (again), and also set the owner and group to root. This seems to have fixed the problem. Not sure why it didn’t work with the first couple of images I created, but it seems to be working now. Thanks for your help everyone 🙂

solved, the problem is that on dhcp server the 067 option filename is changed, now is undionly.kpxe, not pxelinux.0

the “boot memdisk iso raw” method won’t work with linux disks, typically
on the other one’s, you might be able to get some hints from this page [url]https://gist.github.com/robinsmidsrod/2234639[/url]

The records are stored in the imagingLog’s table, and I only recently as in 1.x.x started copying the records displayed on the home screen from this table, where prior it was pulling from the tasks table entirely.

the tftp service failing to start automatically is a known problem with some linux distro’s especially ubuntu, the answer is on the forums somewhere. rerunning the installer every boot is NOT the solution to this problem.

yes i have checked nfs server is running
I just found out that i cannot mount filesystem of share of ubuntu server to any of the linux machine.
i got same error

[quote=“PdsNick, post: 30732, member: 24454”]Hey cbirch,
I don’t know if this helps you at all, but I was able to fix my problem of a blank FOG configuration page by ignoring my FOG server IP address in the Lightspeed content filtering appliance that is in-line in our network. Apparently it was blocking the download of certain files during the ./installfog.sh portion of my installation, resulting in the core GUI being there, but not the pages associated with the FOG configuration page. I would make sure you bypass any firewall/content filtering services you have on your network if you are having this issue.[/quote]

Thanks for posting your fix. This worked for us too!

Found this gem while researching more over the weekend:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/cant-view-fog-configuration.10756/[/url]

The site I was assisting with the FOG installation did have lightspeed running and it was blocking the contents of the page from loading. Setting an exception in lightspeed fixed it instantly. Thanks for all you guys do!

Update. Client will now boot successfully after running the startup repair utility from the windows 7 install disk.

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What is in the file:

/tftpboot/default.ipxe

A similar thread to this seemed to die - if these are broken, the wiki should be updated with that…

Hey, konw I know lots more about fog than i used to know, and i use it since 0.30 or so 😉

So here is just a feedback : you were totally right !
The problem causes now very low speed while imaging on some machines ( record : 22 MB/min !!! ) and as soon as I connect the machine on another switch, the speed increase frankly. I’m not victorious because I didn’t isolate the faulty swith ( there are many interconnected … ) even if I suspect one ( but reboot it doesn’t change anything.
So I don’t bother you and ask more as it is clearly a network issue and not a FOG one, but when I found a solution ( I hope so … )
I will post it here …

Thank you again !