Active Directory Join Failing
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@Joe-Schmitt what are your thoughts on this?
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@jeffscott the quickest way to see what’s going on is to do the following steps on a problematic machine:
- Open an administrative CMD, and run
net stop fogservice
- Navigate to your FOG server’s web portal, select the host you are working on and perform these steps:
- Press
Reset Encryption Data
if its an option
- Press
- Download our Debugger.exe and run it
- The Debugger will open a console that has a
fog:
prompt, please enter these commands, pressing enter after each one (replace{server-ip}
with your actual FOG server IP):middleware configuration server http://{server-ip}/fog
middleware authentication handshake
dump cycle save
The debugger should point you to a
FOGCycle.txt
file. This contains all the information the server tells the client, completely decrypted. Can you make sure thehostnamechanger
section has the correct active directory login/OU information? You can then hopefully debug the problem better and identify what credential the client is receiving.To clean up:
- Close the debugger
- click
Reset Encryption Data
again on the host in the gui - start back up the fog service if you want
@Moderators feel free to copy & paste these steps for people with similair issues in the future. The steps shouldn’t change in the foreseeable future.
- Open an administrative CMD, and run
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OK, I performed that procedure and I can see the password that it is passing is no where near correct…
Looks like it is an encrypted version??? (I can’t even tell what one of the characters is)
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@Tom-Elliott it seems the server is not sending the password correct.
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Where have you changed the Password?
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2 Places:
Initially in FOG Configuration, FOG System Settings, Active Directory Defaults
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Subsequently re-entered it in Host Management, Active Directory for the Host I’m testing with
Entering the password in the “Domain Password” Field. Leaving “Domain Password Legacy” field blank
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@jeffscott just to clarify, you’re using the plaintext password in the non legacy password field? Maybe we can remote tomorrow so I can see what’s going on?
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Hey Tom,
Sorry, I was away for a few days…
Yes, I’m using the non-legacy password field. Yes, I’d be willing to do a remote session.
Thanks,
Jeff
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Hey Tom,
I’m just now coming back around to this…
Any updates on this?
Thanks,
Jeff
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@jeffscott I’m willing whenever you’re able. Maybe this afternoon? (I’m on EDT)
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Any chance we can revisit this?
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@jeffscott Hey, I hope you are still around in the forums. I just looked into an issue that sounds very similar to what you have. See here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12407/active-direcory-join-fail-bad-password-1-5-4
Just found your post here by accident and thought this might be along the same lines. Can you confirm your password starts with a special character that might cause this issue?! I really hope to figure this out but I’m still unable to replicate the issue from the information I have so far.
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@Sebastian-Roth FYI, i am using 1.5.4 with a ad join password starting with % (percent sign) in production.
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@x23piracy Thanks, that’s good to know. Although I guess it might be that
$
special case causing the issue for the other users as it is used for variables in PHP, as line end in regular expressions such things.