Posts made by Jaymes Driver

[quote=“maples, post: 44833, member: 29215”]It’s working now. I made /etc/init/tftpd-hpa.override that contains “manual” and I changed my /etc/rc.local to
[code]
sleep 30
start tftpd-hpa
exit 0
[/code]

Does this forum have a “thread solved” button? I know that some others do, but I haven’t found it yet.

Thanks![/quote]

No not exactly (for the Solved button) but you are welcome to edit your main post, Leave a note on the solution and put a BOLD line at the top that explains the issues have been resolved, remember to put code in the code brackets so it is easier to copy and paste without the darn emojis!!!

Like this:

[B]SOLVED[/B]
Thanks (list of persons that helped)

This seems to have solved my issue of [issue goes here]:
[code]{Actual resolution of the issue}[/code]

I appreciate all your help and support!

So are you saying you don’t want to expand the partition to the end of the disk?

Instead (for example) you only want to add (lets say) 50 gb to the partition after imaging?

You can increase the amount of time FOG will spend on the menu by making adjustments on the FOG Web GUI under the FOG Settings.

You can change the default boot method if you like, I highly recommend leaving it to boot form local hard drive so if you aren’t at the machine it will continue to boot without intervention.

[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 43555, member: 28155”]I can’t do that, I’d surely loose my job.[/quote]

I face this problem as well, I set up a computer at home for FOG and let it mine away though.

I would edit the file /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and remove the line
dns=dnsmasq

or comment it out.

Toni,

You need to edit /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head and add your namservers to this file.

resolv.conf is generated, it uses the head and base files to generate. If you include your nameservers in the head or base files you stand a greater chance of the changes staying after a reboot.

You may also want to edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
and remove the line

dns=dnsmasq
save and restart your network and resolvconf service

sudo service resolvconf restart
sudo network-manager restart

Now your settings should stick after a reboot, and you should be able to navigate.

[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 43376, member: 28155”]One time, I found a keyboard with all the keys arranged in alphabetical order. You know that took a while… Again, a classroom management problem. How can a teacher not notice a kid plucking keys off all hour long? Only if they aren’t being active in the computer lab, only if they aren’t walking around and keeping an eye on things.[/quote]

I understand your stance. Unfortunately the corporation I work in has little to no accountability, and no one ever gets reprimanded. Even the students who have been showing the others how to cheat get off scott free.

I would like to see better classroom management, but unfortunately, I can’t

These are students that the school corporation has more or less “given up on” and have been sent to an alternative learning center. While the instructors may have given up on the students, I have not.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43373, member: 7271”]It being there, or not, does it open an incognito window?[/quote]

Yes, incognito window still starts unfortunately

However, I am not sure how reputable this program is, but I found something called “Incognito Gone” and it seems to work well… Now to squash the New window button and this could be golden.

What would be nice is if the service limited logins to a single sign on

[quote=“Wolfbane8653, post: 43365, member: 3362”]I have successfully disabled the incognito on the machines here using this reg hack.
[url]https://www.internetsafetyproject.org/wiki/how-disable-incognito-mode-chrome[/url]

new windows however are hard.[/quote]

It says that after applying the reg hack the option in the menu will not be available… Its still there!!!

[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 43359, member: 28155”]In my honest opinion, you are doing too much. This is a classroom management issue, not a technology issue. If some students are repetitively academically dishonest while using technology, suspend their technology privileges, let them take a paper test instead.[/quote]

I agree Wayne, but I am a technology support person and I do not administer the class room. I can make suggestions left and right, but that does not mean that the administrators will follow my suggestions.

This was also more or less a personal quest, after having so much difficulty in preventing the extra windows, it has become a vendetta lol.

[quote=“Wolfbane8653, post: 43362, member: 3362”]Agreed, but some administrations see that using the shot gun approach to issues is the best. The only way for this approach to work is to limit the technology itself. So Jaymes is making the best out of his situation.

Students pop the keys off of keyboards here all the time. We all know its a classroom management issue but no one does anything, so I’m stuck fixing keys all the time. I do have to hand it to them they did have enough time to spell out “F*** YOU” on the finger placement keys. (Yes they stole the second “U” off another keyboard.) Just something I have to deal with I guess.[/quote]

Thanks for your vote of support and understanding. However, I have found that even after all of my attempts to stop chrome from opening more than once, have failed. My AutoIT program works flawlessly. It won’t allow more than one window of chrome to open, so long as it is what is used to start chrome.

If chrome is already open, you can still click the “open new window” and it will start a new session, the same thing occurs for “New Incognito Window”.

As much as I wanted to solve this issue, I think it is out of my control now. I’ve done everything to block new windows, or attempt to, and to prevent incognito windows, even with reg hacks to prevent incognito, they still start when you click the button. The only thing left to do would be to build a browser… and I am not going that far.

I am going to look into the chrome for education and business lines see if I can find a way to manage sessions and settings via an admin panel.

Wanted to add that my chrome script is working flawlessly.

Something I forgot to take into consideration was the hotkeys chrome uses.

Users can still launch an incognitio window with Ctrl+Shift+N and they can launch a new window with Ctrl+N.

I wrote another script for Auto IT that will block these key commands.

Does anyone know how to limit the blocking to the Chrome sessions only?

Until then I am going to leave the Alt+F4 key alone, it is still useful in other cases.

[code]
#NoTrayIcon
HotKeySet(“^n”, “_SarlaccPit”)
HotKeySet(“^N”, “_SarlaccPit”)
HotKeySet(“^t”, “_SarlaccPit”)
;HotKeySet(“!{F4}”, “_SarlaccPit”)

While 1
Sleep(500)
WEnd

Func _SarlaccPit()

EndFunc[/code]

Right now I compiled this as an exe and it runs at startup

Is there a partition present on the drive?

If it’s a brand new drive, try these steps [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/quick-format-to-ntfs-with-fog-for-noobs.10349/[/url]

It could be possible, I highly recommend running the installer so that when you are asked for your DHCP information you can supply your correct server.

If you want to uninstall the dhcp server

[code]
sudo apt-get remove dhcp3-server[/code]

should remove it.

First off: I will rewrite all of this in complete steps when we are done, but for now, lets focus on the fragments.

ipxe.krn needs to be in /tftpboot not in /tftpboot/fog/kernel.

I see you already have placed /var/www/fog/service/ipxe, that is good.

Now we need to get the kernel booting.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 42083, member: 7271”]That was specific the novell dhcp, and a version and below of that.

The thing that sounds most likely that’s happening.

ip-helper is not setup to direct traffic back to the dhcp server to even get the options.[/quote]

To be specific Novell Netware 6.5

The only reason I know all this is because My network is sorely outdated. I had to devise a plan to still be able to use FOG and the new iPXE without altering my network because it will not accept certain values.

Matter of fact, Netware 6.5 has a VERY strict 8 character limit that even applies to groups, and usernames, it’s quite cumbersome.

[quote=“Junkhacker, post: 42074, member: 21583”]Jaymes can correct me if i’m getting this wrong, but i believe he had a packet capture that showed switches changing the requested file from undionly.kpxe to undionly.0
to fix the issue, he created a symbolic link between the actual file and the requested file
ln -s /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe [FONT=Tahoma]/tftpboot/undionly.0[/FONT][/quote]

It is a native function of dnsmasq, not sure why, but it does append the .0 to the file name, not the switches. Just to clarify.

But the resolution was to symlink undionly.kpxe to undionly.0

and it IS part of the installation instructions on the wiki for using DNSMASQ with iPXE.

I have only tried DNSMASQ setup on Novell Netware 6.5 and a simple home network with a linksys router, I don’t have experience in other network environments.

I would recommend DNSMASQ

[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_server#DNSMASQ_settings_for_iPXE[/url]

This will help to resolve your boot file and server, this negates the need to edit DHCP scope settings.

When you run the Fog installer, it will ask which interface to use FOG with.

eth0 will probably be the first nic

you can use the ifconfig command to display all the current adapters.

eth1 will probably be your second nic.

During FOG installation you will have a question that will ask if you “would like to change the default interface from eth0”, if you would like press y, press enter and add the interface.

I have not tested a set up like this, but it should work.

You will want to edit your interfaces file and set a static ip for eth1, or use the network manager and set a static ip for eth1.

[quote=“eric0626, post: 42028, member: 357”]LOL!! I’m so tempting to re-install the whole thing because I recall it happens after I updated to a newer svn version.[/quote]

That of course, is always an option, but I should be able to set up a test server tomorrow to assist you further.