Figured it out, re running the fog installer after messing with the passwords etc reset my option routers in the dhcpd.conf file.

and now my routing has stopped working again. did’nt notice it because i had to step away for a bit, but the test machine that just imaged has no network access. I also tried another machine that is a known good one and its not getting network either. I can ping the 192.168.1.1 just fine, PXE booting still works, its just now not routing. I mean its better than nothing we can get by with out network on this if it comes down to it. Thank you to every one who has helped me so far.

@george1421 okay so setting that to NO seems to have done the trick. I can log in to ftp now, and the image capture successfully put the finished image in the images dir. I am now doing my first image restore to a test machine, its looking promising ^_^

@george1421 Fedora 30

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tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:21              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN

thats what that gave me.

and this

ftp> open ***.***.215.106
Connected to ***.***.215.106.
500 OOPS: tcp_wrappers is set to YES but no tcp wrapper support compiled in
Connection closed by remote host.

@george1421 I went into all the config files and changed it. didnt realize it was a big deal. But it was messing up even before I did that. do I need to run the fog installer again ?

I’ve got two NICs one is 192.168.1.1 for DHCP on an isolated network the other is ..215.106 this one has access to the rest of the schools network and assigned by my sysadmin. I needed to be able to remote into the server and supply intert the clients at the same time, so I have it configured to route the traffic from 192.168.1.1 through IP tables and NAT to the 215.106 interface.

My sysadmin does not want DHCP to the rest of the network, hence the utterly complex setup i’m trying to pull off. I’ve tryed to explain to him that FOG wants to be part of the main network, and is expecting a DHCP server to already be setup, etc. But at this time he don’t want that. Its a whole other rant for another time… (we are manually updating everything, not using SCCM or any thing…)

@george1421 I’ve changed that password in all its locations to a custom password. (but it was messing up before I did that though) and no it doesn’t connect.

Okay so I changed it to port 21 and got this

Connect socket #1760 to ***.***.215.106, port 21...
500 OOPS: tcp_wrappers is set to YES but no tcp wrapper support compiled in  
Can't establish connection --> ***.***.215.106:21 @ Tue Nov 05 15:12:53 2019   (0-

the 192.168.1.1 is my DHCP pool the server IP is different. it ends in 215.106

@Sebastian-Roth 22 is just was in the blank be default. I’m not sure what port it should be.

@Sebastian-Roth when I try to connect using an ftp client (coreftp) it gives me this:```

Connect socket #1904 to ***.***.215.106, port 22...
Can't establish connection --> ***.***.215.106:22 @ Tue Nov 05 14:38:50 2019   (0-38)
Connection Failed

I started out the first part of my IP as that is a a private IP for our school.

@george1421 I get that right after it gets done cloning. I recored that as a video its on my google drive https://drive.google.com/open?id=18fwBwbhZ34qPPnrlWwQA_EDyTevForsg I’ve got a couple guys on k-12 Technition suport group discord looking at with me too. (I found out about from the network admin at another school. I work at a college I’m trying to show my sysadmin we need to use FOG lol.)