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      Ph3noM @Tom Elliott
      last edited by

      Thanks guys for your quick responses!

      @Tom-Elliott

      Does it works with windows XP?
      80% of our PCs are xp.

      @RLane said:

      I will say though that I’ve deployed images on hardware 6+ years old (Win7 x64 compatible) and use the FOG client. It is extremely light weight and uses little to no resources.

      Our Pcs are 9+ years old on windows xp, they will soon fall into coma ahah

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        Tom Elliott @Ph3noM
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        @Ph3noM Yes.

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          Ph3noM @Tom Elliott
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          @Tom-Elliott

          And how to make it working?
          It’s not a native function?

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          • Tom ElliottT
            Tom Elliott @Ph3noM
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            @Ph3noM It’s already running, by default. You can disable it.

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              Ph3noM @Tom Elliott
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              @Tom-Elliott
              Ok but it doesn’t work for me…

              By default the hostname in our image is STATIONXXX, after deployment on for example: STATION001 (His name in HOST MANAGEMENT), it remains unchanged (STATIONXXX)…

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                Tom Elliott @Ph3noM
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                @Ph3noM Are your images sysprepped?

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                  george1421 Moderator
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                  Just for clarity what do you mean by “fresh install”?

                  Do you have FOG 1.2.0 stable or a FOG 1.2.0 trunk version (a.k.a pre 1.3.0) installed?

                  Assuming you are using a trunk build, do you have these features enabled in:
                  FOG Configuration->FOG System Settings->FOG Service - Client Updater->
                  FOG_SERVICE_CLIENTUPDATER_ENABLED (checked)

                  and

                  FOG Configuration->FOG System Settings->FOG Service - Hostname Changer
                  FOG_SERVICE_HOSTNAMECHANGER_ENABLED (checked)

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                    george1421 Moderator @RLane
                    last edited by george1421

                    @RLane said:

                    Within sysprep and your unattend.xml file you can create a PS batch script to change the hostname. Only problem is this will require manual input rather than have FOG do it automatically.

                    This isn’t entirely true. You can have a post install script run a simple sed command to replace/change/edit the hostname or any other unattend.xml variable just after imaging and before the first OS boot. I do this today to update some location and OU specific variable in the unattend file.

                    For reference:

                    echo " *   Setting the Computer name to [${hostname}]";
                    sed -i -e "s#<ComputerName>\([^<][^<]*\)</ComputerName>#<ComputerName>$hostname</ComputerName>#gi" $unattendfilepath
                    

                    Yes it did take quite a bit of head scratching to get that pattern match just right.

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                      Ph3noM @Tom Elliott
                      last edited by Ph3noM

                      @Tom-Elliott
                      Nope, we used NewSID until now which was enough with xp.
                      I’ll try to sysprep a new image to test!

                      Thanks you.

                      Another question : is it possible to modify or delete a partition just before deployment? (But not modifying the master image).

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                        Tom Elliott @Ph3noM
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                        @Ph3noM I’m not asking if you are using sysprep to suggest you “NEED” to use it. WHen an image is sysprepped, it knows nothing about the registry values (sometimes), and other times it does. the Hostname_early fog setting is the item you’d likely be looking for, but I need more information.

                        What version of fog are you using (THe number in the FOG Logo Cloud)? What is the partition structure of your Windows system(s)?

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                          Ph3noM @george1421
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                          @george1421

                          I’m using FOG 1.2.0 stable (by “fresh” I mean “new”. Sorry I still have to improve my english 😄 ).

                          @Tom-Elliott

                          As described above, i’m on 1.2.0.
                          80% have: 1 disk with 2 partitions

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                            RLane @george1421
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                            @george1421 @tom-elliott I stand corrected, thanks y’all. Not trying to hijack this, in the past we’ve used a manual PS+HTA script that allowed us to import them to a OU and rename them post-imaging.

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                              george1421 Moderator @RLane
                              last edited by george1421

                              @RLane No worries, all comments are welcome. That is the way we all collectively learn and grow. There are just different ways to go about doing the same thing.

                              The thing we need to keep in mind is the FOS (Fog Operating System) is based on linux and not Windows PE. So in a way we are restricted to only use linux available applications and with the same breath we are feed by being able to use some pretty powerful linux applications.

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                                Ph3noM @Tom Elliott
                                last edited by

                                @Tom-Elliott said:

                                the Hostname_early fog setting item

                                I don’t find it on the web interface …

                                (Forgive me i am a beginner in the computer networking)

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                                  Wayne Workman @Ph3noM
                                  last edited by

                                  @Ph3noM said:

                                  @Tom-Elliott said:

                                  the Hostname_early fog setting item

                                  I don’t find it on the web interface …

                                  (Forgive me i am a beginner in the computer networking)

                                  Web Interface -> FOG Configuration -> FOG Settings -> General Settings -> FOG_CHANGE_HOSTNAME_EARLY

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                                    Ph3noM
                                    last edited by

                                    Oh, my bad, thanks Wayne!

                                    And i’m still stuck for hostname changing, it doesn’t work and i don’t know what to do ^^

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                                      Sebastian Roth Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      @Ph3noM What do you mean by “does not work”? Did you find the setting? Tried deploying the client again? Still the old hostname? Rebooted the client a couple of times?

                                      Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                        Ph3noM @Sebastian Roth
                                        last edited by Ph3noM

                                        @Sebastian-Roth
                                        Hi Sebastian,

                                        Yes the FOG_CHANGE_HOSTNAME_EARLY option is active.
                                        And I tried all, with Win xp and Win10.

                                        I think i’m going to bring myself to use the fog client. ^^

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                                          Ph3noM
                                          last edited by

                                          Anyone have an idea ?

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                                            Sebastian Roth Moderator
                                            last edited by Sebastian Roth

                                            @Ph3noM Please schedule a debug deploy task (normal deploy task but tick the option “Schedule task as a debug task”), start the machine up and wait till you get to the shell. Then start cloning (command fog) and step through the tasking. When you get back to the shell run the following commands to see if the registry changes were done correctly - make sure to choose the correct windows (7/10 - won’t work for XP!) system partition for /dev/sdaX, e.g. /dev/sda2:

                                            shell> mkdir -p /ntfs
                                            shell> ntfs-3g -o force,rw /dev/sdaX /ntfs
                                            shell> reged -e /ntfs/Windows/System32/config/SYSTEM
                                            ...
                                            reged> cd ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
                                            reged> ls
                                            ... <Hostname> ...
                                            reged> cd ControlSet001\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName
                                            reged> ls
                                            ... <ComputerName> ...
                                            reged> q
                                            shell> umount /ntfs
                                            

                                            See what you get for <Hostname> and <ComputerName>…

                                            Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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