@Sebastian-Roth I’m currently using 1.5.7, but due to a little more thorough research, it appeared to be an issue with the apache webserver. After correcting the PHP time zone It now works as intended. Thank you for your help though.

@Mark-krikunov Did you actually verify that TCP port 445 is open on your clients?

for me using ubuntu server 18.04.03 LTS running MariaDB 10.1.41 and FOGPROJECT 1.5.7

this was the final solution

with the installation / upgrade of fogproject choose a password for mysql : type_here_your_fog_database_password

then make sure that password is the same as your mysql database:

login to mysql root with command = mysql -u root

then use following command to make passwords match fogproject

SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@‘localhost’ = PASSWORD(‘type_here_your_fog_database_password’);

Greetings

Jimmy

@Sebastian-Roth If my memory serves me correctly we did encode all of this for a little while, but too my knowledge we’ve moved away from encoding special characters in preference of using proper sanitization of inputs into the database. That’s not to say everything was fixed, but I’m pretty sure we moved away from this particularly because the & would get encoded as &amp, then the & in the &amp would get encoded, and so on and so forth.

@Sunks I use this method to clean out tasks and other odd database junk:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshoot_MySQL#Database_Maintenance_Commands

I really only do the first batch of cleanup commands in this link, deemed the safe ones to perform.

@davemccracken Not pointing at anyone here! Just good you know how it happened and it’s not something out of the blue or “FOG messed up”! 😉

@xburnerx00 said in Image not compressing:

I wanted ssd but people in charge dont think they’re worth it for old machines

They are looking at it from the wrong direction. For $60USD you can extend an old machine’s life for 2 more years. Then you move the SSD to a new old machine. There is very little price difference to not switch to an SSD. Understand that you don’t need a 500GB disk because most of that is wasted. Windows 10 is happy to fit in 70GB of space. So if you don’t have much data a 127GB or 256GB is more than enough.

But I understand what you are saying, its not your checkbook that pays the bills.

@Fernando-Gietz Thanks, now its working!

[EDIT: sorry didn’t see this marked as “solved”]

@jconway1006, not sure if you were able to get your web service back up.

After testing on CentOS, I found that 1.5.7 would not work, and I had to move to dev-branch (1.5.7.2)… not sure why, but it worked. Maybe a clean install on the VM server is best.

I’ve also noticed with VMware it frequently takes more than one try to get the iPXE connection. To get around it

boot to EFI bios and try PXE network boot

at each failed attempt, choose the shutdown option in blue screen

rinse and repeat

Found the issue! After some research and discussion with Cisco, we had to add “PIM” to the vlan on our core, even though both the server and client are both on the same vlan!

Used the command - ip pim sparse-dense-mode on vlan 1 interface and it started working like a charm! I really appreciate everyone’s assistance here. This will help our institution so very much.

I was using notepad ++. I guess creating the files from scratch uses the windows CR EOL format. I switched them all to LF and will never have this insanity happen again!

thx!

@Athena What exactly do you need help with?

I still pushed the fix but I’d hope that people help us testing things more!!

@njones You expect group settings to be what I’d call “persistent” but that is not the case in FOG. Groups are more or less just a tool to push settings out to severl host objects but does not store the group information within the group object. Please search the forums for “persistent groups” and read a couple of topics on this.

Hi @Sebastian-Roth and @EduardoTSeoane,

Thank you for your answers.

@Sebastian-Roth said in Multicast with multi-NIC FOG server:

@benjamind May I still ask you to post the full output of the command ip a s. I don’t like to do all the guesswork.

Sorry, but i have removed the virtual NIC to put the server directly in the subnet of the machines.

@Sebastian-Roth I had the same errot as @zclift15 but it seems to have fixed itself perhaps it just took a minute for the change of primary disk to trickle down

@george1421

George/Tom…you are genius’s

I am overcomplicating things. To not define address’s was the answer. Multicast works on my network as i said earlier because i can VLC RTP stream just fine. I have routers setup to do PIM SM. Specifying a multicast rdv was my downfall.

All of you are amazing. Please keep up the great work!

@chunter2 said:

05/09/2019 7:45 PM PrinterManager Adding printers 05/09/2019 7:45 PM Printer Adding: Computer Lab x64 05/09/2019 7:45 PM PrinterManager Could not read printer INF file: bad path 05/09/2019 7:45 PM Printer Adding: Workroom Copier_64bit 05/09/2019 7:45 PM PrinterManager PrintUI return code = 0 05/09/2019 7:45 PM PrinterManager Restarting spooler

And then this the second and subsequent times through.

05/09/2019 7:47 PM PrinterManager Adding printers 05/09/2019 7:47 PM PrinterManager Computer Lab x64 has already been configured 05/09/2019 7:47 PM PrinterManager Workroom Copier_64bit already exists

I might have misunderstood that part wrong when you mentioned this first. It’s not easy to keep up with dozens of requests in the forums and see it all clearly when things are a bit hidden between the lines or messages. I hope to get some more time to dig through that part of the code and see if I can find out why it was programed the way it is (or find a loop hole in it).

I do understand this is an opensource project so no need to feel bad for not having the time. I can wait. I hope I’m coming across as a help and not demanding.

Thanks for mentioning! Good to hear that we are on the same line here.

Or use sysprep to power off the computer
Or run this command to properly power off the computer for cloning shutdown.exe -s -t 0

You found the issue with Windows 8+ where shutdown isn’t really shutdown but an enhanced sleep mode. Disabling fast boot actually puts the computer in a powered off state too.

@Sebastian-Roth That’s fine. Things have been pretty swamped over here so I had to put the issue on the back burner. The issue doesn’t always show up, so troubleshooting has been time consuming.