Posts made by chad-bisd

You can try to remove them through FTP or NFS. I believe you can get the FOG users password from the webUI and use it to FTP into the machine and delete the images files.

Wiki accounts show be created for all that requested. PM me if you have troubles. I have removed recent posts asking for access if I have granted you a user account.

What version of windows? What version of FOG? Are you using sysprep? You may not even need to use FogPrep depending your answers.

Try leaving them connected to wired network until after the rename and domain join. The wireless adapter is not associated with the host record in FOG until after Windows and the FOG Client are loaded, the FOG client has told the database about the wireless mac, AND the FOG administrator has approved the pending mac record for the host.

I solve this by leaving them connected to wired network until domain joined, and then run a custom sql script to accept all pending macs for all hosts sometime down the road.

Don’t delay your new VM for FOG 0.33. I have have good luck with Windows 8 in FOG 0.32 so far. Using Vista as the image type and multiple-partition, single disk image types.

FOG 0.33 is a pretty big rewrite trying to make the code more modular, standardized, and easier to maintain. Unfortunately, it was being done mainly by BlackOut, and he is busy with other projects.

If you want a full backup of the entire system, just google how to backup a linux server. There are packages available through the ubuntu package manager to make this easier like windows. Otherwise, you can use tar and gzip and some kind of external storage.

I don’t think this is currently possible. If you add the second folder as a new storage node in the same storage group, FOG will replicate images from the master node in the storage group to all other nodes, basically duplicating your images onto the second hard drive. I don’t think this is what you want.

You can try to setup a new storage group, and create a new storage node in this new storage group, and point it to the same server but different path. You’ll have to setup an NFS export for the new paths (/Images_d2 and /Images_d2/dev) similar to /images and /images/dev.

What may be a better method for you, if available, is to setup the disks in a JBOD through your storage controller or use LVM. Take a look at this: [url]http://askubuntu.com/questions/18901/recommended-storage-scheme-for-home-server-lvm-jbod-raid-5[/url]

I had a few older servers in storage, so I got them back out and setup new storage groups and storage nodes. I have 3 groups, each with 1 node in it so I can spread the images around to balance storage usage.

If you started with a small disk, but now have a much larger secondary disk, you can move the image storage to the new disk relatively easy. You don’t get to swap back and forth though.

When I get some time next week, I’ll go through this and verify the procedure/update the wiki. Thanks for your contributions. Keep them coming for other Distros and Versions.

Thank you for being multi-lingual so I don’t have to be

did you restart the server anytime after installing it? Ubuntu 12.04 has a problem restarting TFTPD-HPA package properly, and you have to manually restart the service or modify the boot up scripts.

Also, make sure it’s pxelinux.0 <---- Zero, not O

Great. If you plan to use KMS for activation, or use WSUS, you’ll still need to sysprep, but your answer file will not try to rename the pc or join it to a domain. Use a * for the computer name, because you don’t care what sysprep calls it, FOG will rename it. Do not use the unattendjoin section of the answer file, because FOG will join the computer to the domain after it’s renamed.

You need to sysprep /generalize at some point in your image creation process (either audit or oobe mode) for Windows to generate a new CMID for use with KMS and WSUS and possibly other systems. If you use MAK or can hold onto the OEM key, you don’t have to worry about CMID for KMS activation, only if you use WSUS or something else that identifies workstations based on their CMID.

I’m redoing my Windows 7 images this year, trying to work out the duplicate CMID problem I had last year. We are trying to move to KMS for Windows 7, and ADBA for Windows 8 and Office 2013. Seems every time you figure something out, MS changes it.

If you need to change the user account used to join computers to the domain just run the new user account through FOGCrypt and update the username and password values in the FOG settings. The client does not keep the information about what account was used to join the computer to the domain.

Most WOL problems with FOG have nothing to do with FOG. WOL is one of those technologies that looks great on paper and is a nightmare in the real world. If you don’t have the correct driver, it doesn’t work. If you don’t select the correct checkbox in the networking config, it doesn’t work. If you don’t turn it on in BIOS, it doesn’t work. If you don’t shut the computer down in a specific way, it doesn’t work. If you don’t have the proper power to the motherboard, it doesn’t work. If your PSU doesn’t supply the right power, it doesn’t work. If you are on different subnets and haven’t configured your networking equipment properly, it doesn’t work.

Right now, WOL has more “it doesn’t work if” that you can shake a stick at, and FOG isn’t one of them. If you’re WOL works when you start an immediate task but not when you schedule it via cron, it’s not a WOL problem, it’s a cron problem.

I banged my head against the wall trying to get WOL working with CrossTec SchoolVue, DeepFreeze, and FOG. Each program ran into the same problems as listed above.

Lee, can you check your settings and your fog script in init.gz to make sure something didn’t get changed?

I thought there was code in 0.32 to remove the pagefile and hiberfil from the machine. If someone can confirm the code is in place but not working, we can create a bug report.

I do not use FOG to deploy printers because I have Active Directory and it works better in a Windows environment. I think one of the shortcomings of printer management in FOG is the inability to set the default printer. If someone with .Net/C# programming abilities wants to update the client code, we can talk.

tftpd-hpa restart

Search the forums, there are a few threads that show you how to modify the boot process to “fix” the problem with tftpd-hpa on Ubuntu 12.04.

I use GPO preferences based on OU or group membership of the machine. Windows XP (with updates) and up support GPO preferences.

restart your tftp daemon on your FOG server. The command will vary depending on the flavor and version of Linux. If that doesn’t help, can you make sure no other DHCP or PXE servers have been brought online recently (WDS, Zenworks, etc).

I do not use FOGPrep in 0.32/Windows 7. I also do not strictly use sysprep unless I’m trying to solve a windows problem, as FOG can image fine without it if you are using similar hardware for all hosts sharing an image. However, I do not ever use the resizable image type. I always choose Multiple Partitions - Single Disk when I create images for my laptops and desktops that are running Windows 7 and only have 1 disk to image.

There are AD settings in the Other Information -> Fog Settings page. There is a setting on the same page to globally enable the host name changer service globally, but it is a duplicate of the FOG Configuration -> Host Name Changer option. In the FOGClient config on the host, you can also enable/disable the host name changer service.