@WayneGood
Thanks Wayne, that actually will work just fine for inventorying. I went through and added the host, but after the inventorying was done, it just booted right into Windows - obviously I think I missed the timing to select manual boot into NIC and it went straight to the Windows Sysprep setup.
Appreciate the help!
Does anyone know if this is possible or where I can adjust the setting?
Whenever i’m setting up new computers - my processes has been:
After the inventorying the computer just boots right into windows where the manufacturer’s sysprep takes place. I would then need to either hard shut down and reboot into NIC or else go through sysprep to properly shutdown. It’s a step that’s taking some time and I rather after it inventories, it would just restart or shutdown and await for next instruction.
Could someone chime in where the settings are for this?
Thanks!
I just wanted to revisit this thread and provide a solution. The mounting of CIFS worked on the Linux system; however, I am running into a bit of a problem trying to image my first image.
Error states Failed to Mount NFS Volume.
I doubled checked and my /mnt/FogImages/images - has a .mntcheck file and so does /mnt/FogImages/images/dev.
The second thing on the wiki was to check the /etc/exports. Here are my entries:
/mnt/FogImages *(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=0)
/mnt/FogImages/images *(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=1)
/mnt/FogImages/images/dev *(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=2)
The problem is when I perform exportfs -a, I am getting:
“does not support NFS export”. Is it because I am using CIFS as the mount type? Anyway to bypass this so it reflects CIFS?
I am still getting the error. Could someone let me know what else I need to check? I’m so close!
Thank you all.
---- Update —
So it seems after some dinner and a few hours of research, I found that Wayne-Workman and one other dev is also facing this issue back in 2013 and 20 days ago the new svn also broke this function? Is it safe to assume I am now going into uncharted territory and support thus will be slim to nil ?
I am alternatively installing NFS on a server 2012 R2 box as a Windows Storage Node to get my imaging project moving forward. I would still like to know if it’s possible to get CIFS/SMB to work with FOG. Even though the two are quite vastly different than NFS.
Thanks!
@Wayne-Workman said:
@koshia said:
@Wayne-Workman - I don’t know why you like Drobos… they’re POS. I’m just stuck with them because I already purchased it, haha. Either way, to answer your question:
- It would be easier; however, i’m using the drobo for multiple purposes. Mostly as windows shares to host software and back up windows server images and a few other minor things.
- I want to be able to learn how to properly mount and load a Windows share to Fog as in the future, I may end up moving fog to a different storage node (on windows) when it proves its usefulness on our network.
In such case, I would still recommend throwing out FreeNFS, and just making a standard windows share, and then mounting that share within the FOG server via /etc/fstab
I’d call the share simply “images”, and then mount on the Fedora box first (to /images) and THEN install FOG. After that, everything should be fine.
Again, you’re going to see MAJOR performance hits simply due to the structure in which you’re setting this up.
Thanks Wayne-Workman. I was actually looking into CIFS, wasn’t sure if NFS was better so I thought I had better stick with NFS. I’ll give it a go with CIFS as I have had luck with that working before. Let me know if there are any drawback, other than the workflow that you had stated earlier.
Thanks!
@Wayne-Workman - I don’t know why you like Drobos… they’re POS. I’m just stuck with them because I already purchased it, haha. Either way, to answer your question:
@Wayne-Workman I plan on using an external Drobo that’s USB connected to a Windows 7 Pro machine running FreeNFS.
Per your suggestion:
I’m still getting :mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/FogImages.
I don’t have FTP settings up and running yet - I will once I have the first part (mounting) to work first.
I’m a noob with linux, but I think i know enough to just cause problems. I tried mounting a nfs share that i created on a windows 7 computer using freenfs sourceforge project. The permission on the folder and the share is set to give everyone and anonymous logon full control.
On the linux box, I tried configuring the /etc/exportfs to reflect:
/images *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=1)
/images/dev *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=2)
/mnt/FogImages *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=3)
my fstab:
…initial Default stuff…
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/FogImages /mnt/FogImages nfs nfsvers=3 0 0
When I try to do mount -a, I get:
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/FogImages
Looked up a few things on Google and tried it out, but i’m not getting it to work. I’m hoping someone is able to help me through this.
Thanks in advance.