Posts made by afriedman

afriedman

Server

FOG Version: 1.3.0-RC-37
SVN Revision: 6049
OS: Ubuntu 14.04
DHCP is running on: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

Hi Fog Community! Happy Holidays!

I’ve scoured the forums in hope for an answer, but I’m coming up short.

My FOG server has no problem with some computers on our domain, but I keep getting this error on most of them that are in a different part of the building:

http://imgur.com/a/ZMuDD

I looked up that error on the ipxe.org website, and it told me to run a couple commands in the iPXE shell:

ifconf

and

ifconf -c dhcp net0

After I ran these commands, I get these positive responses:

http://imgur.com/a/IcdqV

So when I type ‘exit’ in the iPXE shell, it exits out and immediately boots to the FOG boot menu! Amazing!!

I may have saw 1 other post on the forums where someone had a similar problem with these DHCP issues, and found that one of their Xerox printers was the problem. We do have multiple Xerox printers in our building, including 1 that is close to the computer in the pictures I provided.

Any idea what is going on here?

afriedman

I tried to make a FOG server work in the past over the last couple years, and had mixed results. But when I recently got a new IT job at a small/medium sized company, I REALLY wanted to make FOG work.

I decided to go for as close to 100% automation as I could. So when I looked through the forums on tutorials/guides, I noticed some guides/posts from Lee Rowlett.

Over the course of the last month, Lee helped me along into making my FOG Server perform complete Windows image automation, which included automatic driver installation, active directory unattended join, and a very involved unattend.xml file for SYSPREP.

Long story short, Lee is one of the very few people I’ve met that really knows how to help others with small/extremely complex problems, and be 100% cheerful about it.

I would’ve dropped FOG and gone with some generic paid for imaging solution if not for Lee. Lee, THANK YOU for all you’ve done for me and for the work you do for others everyday.

And of course, THANK YOU to all the amazing FOG developers/administrators/testers for continuing to make FOG an amazing free/open source imaging solution!!!

Alex