@Wayne-Workman It worked perfectly, Thanks.

@Tom-Elliott

Yes I that’s what was downloaded. I deleted all my hosts except my master so I can get on the right side of the encryption. I’ve added back six hosts in the library nearest my office to test.

Everything worked! Hostname, domain and installing and removing printers. Now I can go home and have a happy Friday

said in Organizations Using FOG:

Organization Name: Västbergaskolan AB
Location Stockholm, Sweden
Approximate Number of systems: 800
How long: since 2009

@george1421 I’ll do that and post the result.

@Tom-Elliott

I can understand the decision not to spend valuable developer time on something that the developers deem unnecessary. It doesn’t solve my problem but has helped me make a decision that I’ve been thinking about a long time.

The teachers love their MacBook Airs and we’re going to migrate all the students to ChromeBooks. The rest of the school board agreed with me this morning and allocated extra budget resources for next year.

After this there will only be a few computers in the accounts dept that require Windows and we can do their printer installations manually.

@george1421

This is the SQL from FOG 0.32

CREATE TABLE `printers` (
  `pID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `pPort` longtext NOT NULL,
  `pDefFile` longtext NOT NULL,
  `pModel` varchar(250) NOT NULL,
  `pAlias` varchar(250) NOT NULL,
  `pConfig` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
  `pIP` varchar(20) NOT NULL,
  `pAnon2` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
  `pAnon3` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
  `pAnon4` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
  `pAnon5` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`pID`),
  KEY `new_index1` (`pModel`),
  KEY `new_index2` (`pAlias`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=38 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

Here’s some USB printers that used to work in FOG 0.32

(34,'USB002','C:\\drivers\\lj1018\\HPLJ1018.INF','HP LaserJet 1018','HP-LJ-1018-2','','','','','',''),
(30,'IP_192_168_0_244','C:\\drivers\\MX-3111\\MX-4112_5112\\Swedish\\PCL6\\2kXPVista\\ss0ejsve.inf','wtf','SÄRSKOLAN','','','','','',''),
(31,'USB001','C:\\drivers\\LJ1606DN\\HP1100.INF','HP LaserJet Professional P1606dn','Local HP1606','','','','','',''),
(32,'USB001','C:\\drivers\\LJ-1505\\hpljp1005.inf','HP LaserJet P1505','HP LJ 1505','','','','','',''),
(33,'IP_192.168.0.239','C:\\drivers\\Brother HL-2250DN\\32\\BROHL10A.INF','Brother HL-2250DN series','Marina_HP2250DN','','','','','',''),
(35,'USB001','C:\\drivers\\Brother HL-2250DN\\32\\BROHL10A.INF','Brother HL-2250DN series','Local Brother USB001','','','','','',''),
(36,'USB001','C:\\drivers\\XeroxPhaser_6010_32\\xrhkbzi.inf','Xerox Phaser 6010N','Xerox-6010','','','','','',''),
(37,'USB002','C:\\drivers\\Brother HL-2250DN\\32\\BROHL10A.INF','Brother HL-2250DN series','Local Brother USB002','','','','','','');

This was working perfectly so why was it removed? All change is not necessarily for the better.

@Joe-Schmitt

Since I first installed FOG in 2009 the assignment and automatic installation of printers has been of primary importance. Windows does not automatically install the printers.

FOG version 0.32 has worked perfectly for our school in this regard until the actual server hard disk failed last December. I have my old database backups so I’m considering reverting to FOG 0.32 to save our technicians from having to manually install these USB printers.

Before this drastic step I’ll try to deploy the USB printers as snap-ins tomorrow.

@Tom-Elliott

In the FOG management interface it’s possible to create four types of printers:
TCP/IP Port Printer
iPrint Printer
Network Printer
CUPS Printer

None of these options seem to cover the case of a local printer connected to a USB port eg USB001. We have quite a few different makes and models. In FOG 0.32 we used this type of installation to cover many different printers.

Server

• FOG Version: 1.3.5-RC-13 SVN Revision: 6067
• OS: CentOS Linux 6.8

Client

• Service Version: 0.11.10
• OS: Windows 7 Professional fully updated

Description

How do I add an USB printer?

@Tom-Elliott

Yes I that’s what was downloaded. I deleted all my hosts except my master so I can get on the right side of the encryption. I’ve added back six hosts in the library nearest my office to test.

Everything worked! Hostname, domain and installing and removing printers. Now I can go home and have a happy Friday

@Tom-Elliott

The coffee hadn’t kicked in yet , I found the instructions here https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Additional_information_on_SVN_and_git_.26_FOG_Trunk

@Tom-Elliott

How do I download the RC 12?

@Tom-Elliott

I’ll download the RC 12 and start over with the new client. I’m experimenting with just a few hosts just now instead of 879 hosts until I get it right.

Here’s the printer config as output by FOG PrinterManagerHelper

192.168.0.247
BIB_247
HP Universal Printing PCL 6 (v6.3.0)
C:\Windows\inf\ntprint.inf