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    • J
      Jacob Gallant
      last edited by

      I was able to run those commands this morning and now what is occurring is the systems in the multi-cast task are showing up in Task Management > Active Tasks momentarily and then they are gone, so they all boot onto the hard drive because there is no task for them. I’m not seeing the old multi-cast tasks like we saw before but the machines aren’t connecting to any tasks now.

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      • J
        Jacob Gallant
        last edited by

        Anything else I can try? I’m starting to get some heat on this and I would really rather not downgrade or start from scratch…

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        • W
          Wolfbane8653 Developer
          last edited by

          Do you have to use multicast? You can still create a unicast task (Download) using the group and deploy. Multicast is just a particular method of deployment.

          See:
          [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Deploying_your_Image_a_group_of_clients#Unicast_vs._Multicast_vs._Torrent-Cast_images[/url]

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          • J
            Jacob Gallant
            last edited by

            We do have to use multicast, especially for our labs with 10+ computers. We are limited to resources for our storage nodes and our network where if we’re unicasting any more than 8-10 computers at once it takes way too long.

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            • J
              Jacob Gallant
              last edited by

              An update: multicast is now working again. Doing some digging into the logs I found error messages on the multicast tasks which revealed that there were brackets in the image folder name which udp-sender didn’t like. So to recap:

              1. Tom’s advice on truncating the multicast tables fixed the original issue.
              2. Removing the brackets from the image folder name fixed the second issue.
              3. I’m an idiot.

              Thanks all for your help. Happy fogging!

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              • W
                Wolfbane8653 Developer
                last edited by

                Can you give us the example of your image folder path/name for future reference of this issue?

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                • J
                  Jacob Gallant
                  last edited by

                  Absolutely, the folder name was something along the lines of:

                  \images\IMAGENAME(2015)

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                  • ch3iC
                    ch3i Moderator
                    last edited by

                    [quote=“Jacob Gallant, post: 40567, member: 26524”]
                    3. I’m an idiot.
                    [/quote]

                    Hi,

                    How you solve this problem ? 😉

                    Regards,
                    Ch3i

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                    • JunkhackerJ
                      Junkhacker Developer
                      last edited by

                      [quote=“ch3i, post: 40609, member: 2513”]Hi,

                      How you solve this problem ? 😉

                      Regards,
                      Ch3i[/quote]

                      if anyone happens to figure out how to solve this one, i’ll keep a copy of it on hand for myself for regular use, and deploy it site-wide to my users on a regular basis as well.

                      signature:
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                      We are here to help you. If you are unresponsive to our questions, don't expect us to be responsive to yours.

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                      • J
                        Jacob Gallant
                        last edited by

                        [quote=“ch3i, post: 40609, member: 2513”]Hi,

                        How you solve this problem ? 😉

                        Regards,
                        Ch3i[/quote]

                        My wife would tell you that one is still a work in progress.

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