IPXE : Could not start download: Operation not supported
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i ran the tftp tests listed in the wiki from a windows client and from the fog server, both fail. the windows client gets “timeout occurred”.
I can connect to ftp using a local user account (standard ftp port 21).
I am wondering if i misread some instructions somewhere. I thought that the storage user/pass was to be the same as the user/pass to login to Fog, is this not correct? When i setup the server i named the local account “fog” then the Fog server has the “fog” user and its password to access the webui, that is the password i set in “storage management”.
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That is correct that your thoughts are incorrect. Understand?
Basically, the FOG GUI user/pass pair is completely different from the Storage Node user/pass.
The storage node user/pass is the Local Unix user fog/password pair. This is a randomly generated password generally created at install time.
To change this password you need to run: from terminal:
[code]
sudo passwd fog
[Enter your password] (there is no output)
[Confirm your password] (there is no output)
[/code]Then, once changed, you’ll want to change: /opt/fog/.fogsettings
[code]password=“”[/code]The “” would remain and you place your new fog user password here.
Then you change the Storage Node->Management Username/Password and the FOG Configuration->FOG Settings->TFTP Server->FOG_TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD
Once all of this is done and tested, you should be good from ftp.
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I am still getting the “permission denied” error when i do the test from the fog server. when i try to pxe boot the message flashes up so quickly i have not been able to pause quick enough to see if it is still the same.
i did notice some settings that i did not expect when i looked at .fogsettings. a little more back story, about two weeks ago i changed the fog server ip and went through another forum post that referenced some locations to update the IP. It had been working until today and i did see the correct IP in many locations in the webui but in .fogsettings it had the old IP still. I updated it.
in .fogsettings i updated, password=“<the new reset unix local ‘fog’ account password>”
I tried restarting tftp-hpa but it didnt help.
Thanks for the help. I am confident we will get this resolved, im sure i just missed somehting somewhere.
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Can you give me an exact “permission denied” message?
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i posted a screen shot earlier today. let me know if you dont see it.
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The image isn’t showing or displayed.
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Based on the fact that a normal “test” to see if tftp is actually operating seems to fail, is the tftpd-hpa service actually running?
[code]sudo service tftpd-hpa restart[/code]
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tftpd-hpa is running. service --status-all shows it and i restarted it and it started without error.
the tftp test is still failing on the server but i am getting a different error on the client side.
when it tries to boot it references the old IP. I have gone through all the settings in the webui and .fogsettings. where else can it be pulling the old IP from?
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i found a random blog post that said to run “[SIZE=13px][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#333333]./installfog.sh --no-upgrade” after changing the server IP. This looks like it was for pre 1.x versions so I dont know if it would be ok to run or not.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
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i ran the re-install of fog and pxe booting is working again. strangely enough the tftp test on the server still fails as does the client side test.
I will ignore it for now unless you think it will cause me headaches down the road.
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I don’t know if it will, but it seems, to me, to be related to the tftp command possibly.
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so im getting the “operation not supported” message when i try to pxe boot a VM but a physical machine is able to.
I think i read a post about there being some updated pxe files?
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What VM?
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the VM is running in VMWare esxi 5.5. i setup a win7 vm to sysprep to create an image from.
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i edited the tftp config file. it listed root as the user and 0.0.0.0:69 as the ip address. I changed these to ‘fog’ and 127.0.0.1: respectively.
any ideas where i could find a log of why the connection is failing for this vm? it has worked on this vm in the past.
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my best guess, did you upgrade the Hardware version/OS of the VM?
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no. i set this vm up a couple weeks ago. clean install of win7.
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any ideas what i can try next?
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Which DHCP Server do you use? The one configured by FOG or a different one. Here is an interesting post on missing ‘next-server’ DHCP option: [url]http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/3529[/url]
And here is another one on wrong scope: [url]https://communities.vmware.com/message/2139349[/url]
Please provide some more information about your setup and which DHCP server is used (plus configuration…).