Permission denied with SMB share for image capture.

[Aurel]

Server

• FOG Version: 1.3.4
• OS: Debian 8

Client

• Service Version: Last
• OS: Windows

Description

Hi,

I setting up a fog server on a Debian 8 VM and it’s great. But, I would change the image storage location with a SMB share to a folder on my hardware server (srv-backup on Windows 2008 Server). I mounting my folder with fstab

//srv-backup/ImagesPC /images/ cifs rw,username=...,password=...,domain=...,uid=1001,dir_mode=0777,file_mod=666

uid=1001 : fog user UID

My smb share works because I can write inside.

The mistake :
When I want capture an Images, I booting on the pxe, and at last, I have the error “Permission Denied”.

I can’t mount a nfs share because my server doesn’t support(disable) this protocol.

However, on my fog Dashboard, I can seeing the capacity of my SMB share in “Storage Node Disk Usage”.

How to do for the fog user can read/write (owner) in my SMB share ?

Thanks you in advance.

Regards,

[george1421]

The problem is here you can not share out a directory in FOG that is actually mounted to a remote server. Its hard to explain but you are trying to reshare a remotely mounted share. This is a linux/nfs restriction not a fog one.

If you can enable nfs on your windows box you can setup your windows server as a fog storage node. Understand this is not supported by FOG, but its possible. I wrote a proof of concept to setup a windows server as a FOG storage node.
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6941/windows-server-as-fog-storage-node-proof-of-concept-blog

I did use windows 2012 because it was easier to script the install, but windows 2008 or 2012 will / should work.

[Wayne Workman]

I would not advise using windows as a storage node though. Not worth the hassle to me.

You can however mount an iSCSI volume as a local disk on the fog server and export that via NFS, because iSCSI is block-level. smb/cifs/nfs is not block level, therefore cannot be re-exported.

[Aurel]

OK thanks you. Finaly, I’ve up my VM size and problem solved :P.
My windows server is in prod, I can’t make tests on it.

Thanks you guys