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    • george1421G
      george1421 Moderator @Atton
      last edited by george1421

      @Atton I just answered this in another thread but my searching skills are weak at the moment.

      For your resolve.conf it will need to be adapted to looks similar to this.

      search domain.com ad.domain.com
      nameserver 192.168.1.16
      nameserver 192.168.1.17
      

      Put your most likely nameserver first in the list as well as the most likely domain first in the search list.

      once resolve.conf is updated you should test to ping your hosts by their windows names (short names, not fqdn)

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        Atton
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        When I go to edit the resolv.conf file it says any changes I make will be over written.

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          george1421 Moderator @Atton
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          @Atton If resolve.conf is managed by the NetworkManager (typ ubuntu or debian variant) application then you need to make those settings inside the networkmanager program. The other thing that would overwrite that file is if your fog server has its address defined by dhcp.

          I would go ahead and set the file manually and see if something along the way changes it. No guts no glory, I say…

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              Atton @george1421
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              @george1421 My resolv.conf file has been updated. I changed the networkconnection and resolv.conf updated itself. It is still showing all red marks. Do I need to rerun the fog installer?

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              • george1421G
                george1421 Moderator @Atton
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                @Atton Can you ping a windows computer from your fog server using its short name?

                If so then it should be setup correctly if you have port 445 enabled on the target computer’s firewall. FOG doesn’t use the simple ping check to confirm the computers online, it uses a connect to port 445 which is a bit more reliable to show the system is actually up than a ping.

                There is a FOG service that runs at some interval to refresh the up/down status. That may have not run yet, if you just fixed the name resolver. Rebooting your FOG server should kick everything off again.

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                  Atton @george1421
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                  @george1421 I can ping the IP addresses but not the host names.

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                    george1421 Moderator @Atton
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                    @Atton Well we’ll need the names resolution working. So can you ping the hosts using their FQDN?

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                      Atton @george1421
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                      @george1421 I cannot

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                        george1421 Moderator @Atton
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                        @Atton Ok then something isn’t right.

                        Do you have an AD domain?
                        Is the resolv.conf pointing towards your DNS server for AD?

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                          Atton @george1421
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                          @george1421 We have 3 windows active directory servers. I pointed the resolv.conf file to two of them and didn’t get anything. Resolv.conf has since overwritten itself to say 127.0.1.1.

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                            george1421 Moderator @Atton
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                            @Atton So just to confirm that your fog server’s IP address is hard coded and not set by dhcp?

                            If its not set by dhcp, I might assume you have a ubuntu or debian based FOG server? If that is the case you will need to go into the network manager application and define the name servers and search domain in that app because each time you reboot the fog server the network manager rewrites that resolve.conf file.

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                              Atton @george1421
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                              @george1421 My ipaddress is set to static in the network manager. I am using Ubuntu and the AD servers are all in the network manager along with the domain.

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                                Atton @Atton
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                                @Atton I think I got it. I had two of our Active Directory servers in the network manager but not the third one that handles our DHCP service.

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                                  george1421 Moderator @Atton
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                                  @Atton So now you can ping the workstation by their short windows names?

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