Posts made by hancocza

@wayne-workman It works if i run it as an administrator on the test computer. It just doesn’t work when i run it as a snapin. Same code and everything. I assume it has something to do with running on the SYSTEM user?

@wayne-workman Did you ever have any luck with this? I copied it into my own powershell script, and changed the entries to reflect my own SMB share. I added a line at the end to test that it is actually connected, which doesn’t work. It is just a basic Copy-Item command to copy over a file from the share to the local drive. I added a second copy line after that to make sure that the script is executing completely, which copied a file in one folder on the local system to the desktop. This line worked.

Gotchya, I will switch back to that. Thanks Joe!

Hello,

I’ve been attempting to add the new FOG Client (11.15) to some old XP laptops that we have. The install goes fine after following the instructions to add .NET 4.0, but getting the FOGService to launch is another thing. When you try to start the service, you get the following error: “Error 1075: The dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion.” After going through the registry and the listed dependent services, it looks like FOGService is trying to use profsvc, which doesn’t exist on XP. Do we have any workarounds?

Thanks!

@joe-schmitt Still a no go. Still trying to reach over 80.

@joe-schmitt Hey Joe,

Just tried to install it with the HTTPS switch. Still getting the Unable to install CA Certificate issue.

@joe-schmitt Do you have an MSI version of it? If not, do you know what the parameter is to install this with https?

@joe-schmitt Yes. I go to the browser and it doesn’t throw any warnings. The address bar has the green secure lock on it.

@joe-schmitt For the apache web server? No. We use a custom one. From what I understood though was that the installer is just looking for the srvpublic.crt, which is still in it’s original place.

@tom-elliott Correct. So i have edited the web server to redirect to https and that works fine, its just that the fog client cannot reach the certificate when installing on host computers.

Hey Guys,

Thanks for answering. Would this be the sites-enabled config? I tried changing that but still am getting the unable to install CA certificate issue, even after restarting the apache server.

Hello,

I’m running FOG 1.5.0-RC 12 with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. When i upgraded, the server pushed out the update to 11.13 for the FOG client. I assume when it tried to install the new version, it was unable to since the clients could not install the CA certificate and as such I now have no client on any of my hosts. From wireshark, I found that they install the CA Certificate over port 80. In our network setup, we use HTTPS instead of HTTP, and as such we block communication on port 80. Is there any way that if the server and clients are installed with the HTTPS options selected, if the client could also search for the CA Certificate over HTTPS as opposed to HTTP?

@sebastian-roth I didn’t import it on any installs that I’ve done. It always just installs the certificate that is on the server. I believe it’s called srvpublic or something like that, in the SSL folder.

@sebastian-roth I’m not sure how to do that. We’ve talked about it before on this forum, re-rolling the client, but then i found if i leave the certs that the client looks for in their normal place, and then use the company’s certs for just the web server, it works fine, at least for PC clients which is a majority of what we have. Because of that and the fact that we only have like 5 iMacs, I haven’t really messed with it.

@sebastian-roth said in FOG Client on a Mac:
No rush, I leave for a two week vacation tomorrow and it’s not a immediate issue. Thanks!

@sebastian-roth
I only use the CA for the Web GUI. I edited the etc\apache2\sites-enabled\001fog file to point to my company’s CA Cert. The ca.cert.der is still fog’s original cert, which i left in place because at the start of my switch to SSL, moving them caused issues with the SSL version of FOG Client. When I left the original certificates in place and edited the 001fog.conf file to point to the custom ones instead, the client works with SSL. On Windows, I no longer have to change the settings.json file, installing it with the switches works. It’s just on Mac OS that it doesn’t work with the switches.

@sebastian-roth I am running FOG on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Fog version is 1.5.0-RC9. I let FOG setup the apache config on it’s own using the https switch in the installer, but then afterwards I changed the hostname to reflect the FQDN of our server, not the IP Address. Also, I pointed the apache config to a different location for certificates for the Web GUI over SSL. I am also able to access the ca.cert.der file using http.

Hey Tom,

My FOG server setup is setup to use https. On PC the https switch works fine, have about 200 computers able to install it and communicate with the server. It’s when I try with the same switch on Mac that i have the issue. Granted, when installing on PC i use the MSI installer with switches, not the SmartInstaller.

Hello,

I have been trying to install the FOG Client on an iMac that I have running Sierra (10.12.6). It installs fine using the mono SmartInstaller.exe command without any switches. However, I need to specify that the client uses HTTPS for connections. I tried using the -h switch coupled with the --server= switch, but the installer fails at Pinning Server.

As a work around on PCs, I edit the settings.json file to turn the https switch on. Trying to do that on a Mac so far has not been doable. The file is locked, even when trying to edit from root. I’m hoping to find a solution to this.

My FOG Server is running 1.5.0 RC-9, client is the latest version.

Thanks,
Zach

All set now, thanks Tom!