I was looking for this solution. I just wanted to create a simple standard user with no password for students to log into. I created a powershell script and just used this line personalized for me:
NET USER username “password” /ADD
I took out the password and set Student as the username. It created a standard user named Student. Worked slick.
I was messing with the other model of laptop that was now giving me issues. It was dying at random points of the capture. It was actually overheating. I grabbed a different laptop of the same model and it worked like a charm.
So, all of my capture issues so far have seemed to be hardware related.
After replacing the hard drive on a different laptop of the same model, success. I was able to image the repaired laptop with the raw image and then capture the same image off of the repaired laptop as a resizable image.
Now I have a different model that starts to do the resizable image, gets started, but quits half way through. I am trying the raw image now to see if that works.
I’m on 1.4.2. I am not cloning VM’s, I am cloning a physical machine. I am wondering if it has some bad sectors on the hard drive. I did a check disk and everything came back clear but that makes sense to me if the raw one does a sector by sector.
I am going to image this image to another machine and then try to pull the image from that one as single disk resizable and see if that is what it is. The raw image is taking up way to much space on my server.
I was getting this same error with Windows 7. I changed the image to raw and it instantly started pulling the image on reboot.
@george1421 This did not end up fixing anything. I changed the number to reflect an hour. I pushed out a snapin for Dreamweaver and it is still spinning away even after it is installed on the client machine. I also tried uploading the full suite and it failed to upload.
I went into the /var/log/fog directory and looked at fogsnapinrep.log but didn’t see anything relating to my issues.
@george1421 I saw that but wasn’t sure where to adjust. Will this fix the upload of the large snapin files or the constant active task?
@george1421 Attached is a screenshot of that error.
Yes. I’ve gotten the single adobe applications to upload as snapins. The issue is that while they seem to install just fine, but the task is still showing as active in the dashboard and not finishing. I installed the Microsoft suite yesterday and it worked just fine. Once it was done, the active task disappeared from the dashboard.
The suite is not installing. It is failing to upload when adding the new snapin. I then just started doing the apps one at a time and those upload fine. I think it has something to do with the time to upload or size. The suite is about 20GB and each app is around 1-2GB. I changed max sizes in the php.ini and I changed ftp timeout in the settings of the dashboard.
I just did Illustrator and it hangs as well. I canceled the active task for Photoshop because it completed. I started a new one for Illustrator. I just went and checked the computer it is installing to and Illustrator appears to be installed just fine. It is still showing as an active task in the dashboard though.
I am playing with the snapins. I have successfully deployed the Microsoft Suite. I am now working on Adobe applications. I tried to upload the entire suite as one package but the snapin would get to 99%. The page would go to refresh and would says something about the server not responding. I am now working on just doing the individual programs. I have done Photoshop so far. It uploads. I push the snapin to my client.
The issue is that the dashboard keeps saying I have one active task. I go to the machine and Photoshop is installed and runs just fine. Why is the task still showing as active in the dashboard?
@Quazz I am using the Ubuntu VM as my FOG server. I don’t want to use the whole server with ESXi for storage also, just for the server portion. That is why the old Xserve is getting Ubuntu installed and set up as the NAS. I can then use it as a storage node as well as storage for files for things like computer backup and storage for files from our art department. Since the Xserve is just going to be a NAS the IPXE thing shouldn’t matter.
@george1421 I’m not going to attempt it. Apple has quit supporting the Xserve so the OS can’t be upgraded anymore. That is why I am getting ready to do something else with them after I get stuff set up elsewhere. I have 3 of them. I haven’t used this one for a while so I am installing Ubuntu now to create the NAS.
I also use Casper Imaging for our Apple laptops. That is on another Xserve. I have configured another VM with Ubuntu to run Casper. Ubuntu can’t run the imaging portion of the suite though so I am going to work on getting the imaging of my Apple laptops working with FOG and hopefully package distribution later. Then I can get rid of Casper for FOG completely and not have the licensing bill that comes with Casper. That will get rid of that Xserve.
@george1421 Are you meaning leave OS X on the Xserve and set it up as a storage node?
@george1421 The Xserve has a lot of space on it so I would like to get more use out of it than just for FOG. If I have multiple nodes wouldn’t that make imaging faster by taking the load off of one distribution point? I have a lot of computers that I want to use FOG for.
@george1421 I don’t see an NFS option on the Buffalo Linkstation. Windows, Apple, FTP, and Disk Backup are the check boxes in shared folder support. I’m wondering if that is the issue. I have an old XServe that I am backing up now so I can wipe it. I am going to configure a NAS on it and use it. It is just sitting in the rack anyways.
I am still going to work on the Linkstation though. It would be nice to have several nodes. I am wondering if I can upgrade firmware or install different firmware on the Linkstation to make it more flexible.
I have configured it using the FOG web GUI. The Buffalo NAS itself has a web GUI that you use to create directories and share with permissions. I made a directory called FOG and gave the user “imaging” read and write privileges to that directory.
I went into FOG and set up the storage node. As I was going down the steps to add the node I used Windows to FTP into the shared directory and create the folders inside that were listed on the page used to add the node. I put the user and password for the directory that I created inside of the Buffalo NAS control panel down as the credentials before I saved the node.
I am having issues capturing an image. I have FOG installed on Ubuntu 16.04. FOG version is 1.4.2. I am trying to save my images on a Buffalo NAS model LS-CH500L. Hopefully that is possible. I added the storage node and all of the credentials are correct. I took a picture of the error but it fails to upload. The error says it fails to mount the file system at the top. After the box that says and error has been detected it says the path and then connection refused. Thank you for any help.
Well that was dumb of me. I rebooted the server and everything is working now.
They are all the same model. I tried a couple more and I can only get the one to PXE boot. The rest give me that same error.