Eddie R

Eddie R

I implore you to stick with Linux.
Not a huge PHP fan. If you must change the language, consider a rapid development environment such as Ruby on Rails (ruby) or Django (python).
NFS security doesn’t concern me too much. It is easy enough to reduce (not eliminate) risk by configuring the server to allow read-only connections only from specific IP ranges or subnets and read-write connections from specific administrative IP addresses.
FTP would be fine with me as an NFS replacement. Something like CurlFtpFS could be used to mount the FTP share as a folder and use it just as NFS is currently use, only with password protection.
I’m not quite sure how you would accomplish certain necessary or convenient tasks without the Windows service/client. Such as rebooting for an image refresh and rename+domain-join. What am I missing here. It seems a client-side service is ONE of the things that makes FOG so flexible and useful. Perhaps it should be rewritten as a VB or Powershell script that could be more easily modified and maintained. Either it runs as a service or it runs as a recurring scheduled task.

@Eddie R