[SOLVED] Trouble with renaming
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I’ve made a good start with Fog and have run into a snag. The first set of images were all non-sysprepped but had fogservice included and would execute the renaming task successfully. They were not set to join a domain and no snap-ins selected.
I built my first Win7 sysprepped image and went through a series of edits and tweaks, mostly to my unattend.xml. Somewhere along the way my test laptop stopped taking the registered name in fog and retained the unattend.xml assigned name.
I did some searching and found this forum post [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-not-renaming-not-joining-to-ad.263/[/url]
So, I’m not a lone but I’m hoping for another solution. Are there any log files on the server that would provide hints?
My sequence of events for the image creation is as follows:
Install windows
enter audit mode with ctrl+shft+f3
apply customizations, driver packs, and windows updates
install fogservice
place setupcomplete.cmd and unattend.xml in respective locations
run chkdsk /f
upload image to fog server with label ‘presysprep’
boot that image again
run fogprep
run sysprep from cli
upload image to fog server without letting it boot into windows -
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GREAT SUCCESS!!!
My two problems were (well, one really, RTFM):
- [URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Managing_FOG#Active_Directory_Integration’]Follow this article[/URL] to configure your hostname changer service and then edit the config.ini where you will generate encrypted passwords
- Follow [URL=‘http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818091’]M$ KB818091[/URL] to setup the account that will join nodes to AD
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The renaming bit is working now after clearing up my encrypted password problem as noted in my last post. but still the deployed machines fail to join AD.
So now i turn to AD to ensure that I’ve crafted the service account correctly that is used to join hosts to AD. I found this article and followed it. I had previously not configured my service account correctly.
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818091[/url]
Trying the job again…
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I went back to the wiki where i learned howto setup the passkey on the hostnamechanger ([url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Managing_FOG#Active_Directory_Integration[/url])
I forgot that i needed to update the fogcrypt/etc/config.ini to include the new passkey. I just added that in and reproduced the encryped password for my service account which is used to join hosts to AD. Trying it out now…
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in further testing this morning it seems that my test laptop is only renamed to the registered fog name when i chose not to join it to the domain. If i provide the AD settings the renaming task seemingly does not run nor does the machine join the domain.
[edit] i wonder if fog is trying to change the hostname and join AD at the same time. when we do this manually windows tells us to do so one at a time with reboots between.