Windows 11 | 65x HP Z2 Tower G1i | UPDATE -

[kratkale]

@Tom-Elliott
I’m still testing to see if it works. I have a group of 6 PCs: PC013 through PC018.
They are all identical PCs.
I start the cloning process—reset encryption.
3 to 4 PCs work perfectly, but 1 to 2 PCs cannot connect to the FOG server.
The FOG client is now installed after cloning.
On the next attempt, the other PCs work.

I don’t see any systematic pattern either

[Tom Elliott]

@kratkale Is it possible DHCP IPs are all used up and the device that fails doesn’t have a proper IP address to be able to even communicate with your FOG Server?

It is very odd that one machine works where another seems to fail.

Nope, because 401 isn’t the same as that’s a client side error saying “we failed to prove we can talk to the fog server.”

[kratkale]

@Tom-Elliott
DHCP works perfectly—it runs on IP Fire—and this system has proven itself.

OK—I have a proxy server running. I’ve only specified my IT students’ HTTP server as a proxy exception. All HTTP pages running on the network are inaccessible to the students in their browsers because “the proxy is configured incorrectly”… Of course, this isn’t foolproof—but most students can’t access HTTP pages from IP Fire, Shellies, AP etc., this way. After all, they’re mechanical engineers, not computer scientists. I then set the proxy exceptions correctly in my browser on my computer and can work.
I’ll go ahead and add the Fog Server to the proxy exceptions.

If the website stays open for a while, there should be some way to tell that you need to log in again.

The tab at the top says “Zero”—the image below doesn’t load. Now you have to change the URL to the base URL, and then the login page will appear.

[kratkale]

@kratkale

After cloning, all IP addresses are OK.





The Fog Logs are quite different, after all

Where can I upload the logs?

[kratkale]

@Tom-Elliott
I’m finding all this back-and-forth here pretty confusing—can we structure our communication differently? I think there was a new message from you for a moment—but I don’t see it right now.

[kratkale]

@kratkale

Here in the Tasks, there are those weird snap-ins again—I have no idea where they’re coming from

[kratkale]

@Tom-Elliott
It seems that Machine 17 is the one having the problem with the FOG client—I can’t fix the issue there even by reinstalling it.

Why does the PC have so many network cards?

I’m having Samba problems with the others

[kratkale]

@Tom-Elliott

The button does not reveal the password.

[kratkale]

@Tom-Elliott
Conclusion:

1. It’s unclear why the malfunctioning PC had multiple network cards.
2. Domain Join does not work in this version.
   The experiments leading to this conclusion are as follows:

OK, PC017CAD has been deleted and recreated. I searched for any other “duplicate” PCs using the following SQL queries.
mysql -u root fog -e “SELECT hmHostID, h.hostName, hm.hmMAC FROM hosts h JOIN hostMAC hm ON hm.hmHostID = h.hostID ORDER BY h.hostName ASC;”
mysql -u root fog -e " SELECT hmMAC, COUNT() AS anzahl FROM hostMAC GROUP BY hmMAC HAVING COUNT() > 1; "
mysql -u root fog -e " SELECT h.hostID, h.hostName, hm.hmMAC FROM hosts h JOIN hostMAC hm ON hm.hmHostID = h.hostID WHERE h.hostID IN ( SELECT hmHostID FROM hostMAC GROUP BY hmHostID HAVING COUNT(*) > 1) ORDER BY h.hostName, hm.hmMAC; "

Trying again

Of course, I forgot to select “Reset Encryption Data” again!!! Couldn’t that be set automatically when cloning??? It’s annoying me a little. But it’s probably the same as with the single snap-in—there must be a reason behind it that I just don’t understand

03.07.2026 20:49:54 Main Overriding exception handling
 03.07.2026 20:49:55 Main Bootstrapping Zazzles
 03.07.2026 20:49:55 Controller Initialize
 03.07.2026 20:49:55 Controller Start

 03.07.2026 20:49:55 Service Starting service
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Bus Became bus server
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Bus Emmiting message on channel: Status
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Service Invoking early JIT compilation on needed binaries

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--------------------------------Authentication--------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Client-Info Version: 0.13.0
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Client-Info OS:      Windows
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Middleware::Authentication Waiting for authentication timeout to pass
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Middleware::Communication Download: http://192.168.0.196/fog/management/other/ssl/srvpublic.crt
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Middleware::Authentication Cert OK
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Middleware::Authentication No token found at C:\Program Files (x86)\FOG\token.dat, this is expected if the client has not authenticated before
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Middleware::Authentication ERROR: Could not get security token
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Middleware::Authentication ERROR: Die Datei "C:\Program Files (x86)\FOG\token.dat" konnte nicht gefunden werden.
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Middleware::Communication POST URL: http://192.168.0.196/fog/management/index.php?sub=requestClientInfo&authorize&newService
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Middleware::Communication ERROR: Failed to POST data
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Middleware::Communication ERROR: Der Remoteserver hat einen Fehler zurückgegeben: (401) Nicht autorisiert.
 03.07.2026 20:50:02 Middleware::Response Success

More ghost tasks again… ?

The workstations were not created on the DC.

even though required

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------HostnameChanger-------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 03.07.2026 20:52:03 Client-Info Client Version: 0.13.0
 03.07.2026 20:52:03 Client-Info Client OS:      Windows
 03.07.2026 20:52:03 Client-Info Server Version: 1.6.0-beta.2571
 03.07.2026 20:52:03 Middleware::Response Success
 03.07.2026 20:52:03 HostnameChanger Checking Hostname
 03.07.2026 20:52:03 HostnameChanger Renaming host to PC018CAD
 03.07.2026 20:52:03 HostnameChanger Joining domain
 03.07.2026 20:52:20 HostnameChanger The parameter is incorrect, code =  87
 03.07.2026 20:52:20 Power Creating shutdown command in 60 seconds
 03.07.2026 20:52:20 Bus Emmiting message on channel: Power
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Check in the database whether the username and, most importantly, the password were entered correctly
mysql -u root fog -e " SELECT DISTINCT HostUseAD, hostADDomain, hostADUser, hostADPass FROM hosts; "

Joining the domain in PowerShell as a local administrator works

$domain = "MM.HTLWIEN10.AT"
$username = "MM.HTLWIEN10.AT\adminfog"
$password = "xxxxx" | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($username, $password)

Add-Computer -DomainName $domain -Credential $credential -Restart

Ghost Snapins are still there…
I’m going to delete them now

Created a PowerShell script for domain joining and released it as a snap-in.
samba-tool computer list | sort
Hooray—the PCs are back online!

Hooray—all 6 PCs are now set up in Veyon—so they’ve all successfully joined the domain, and the “Student” snap-in for the Veyon client was also successful…

[kratkale]

@Tom-Elliott

I actually think that’s a bit of a contradiction—or rather, the header isn’t worded very well…
The fields are “pre-filled,” so you might not be familiar with them…
Perhaps a good solution would be: Hosts: (varies) e.g. /dev/md0
Everything below the text box, and the text box itself remains empty