Is their a way to suppress what’s shown on the “List All Printers” management page? The character strings for the path and the name are huge in my case. The most useful thing for us is the IP and name. I can look at individual printers to see what inf files have been installed. Thanks!!
Cheers,
Joe
Thanks for all of the useful replies! We’ll use one of these iterations for our inventory when we start deployment in the next week or two.
Cheers,
Joe
I thought it would be awesome if their was a feature that allowed a user to copy the entire printer in fog to a new printer. It would save many key strokes when creating new printers with the exact same drivers but with different IP addresses. Just a thought.
Thanks guys! You are awesome!
Cheers,
Joe
We have Chromebooks in our district. 120 of them. We are putting all of these into service this coming Fall. That said, we are new to using FOG too. We did a small test in our district with 40 of them this past Spring. It went so well that we decided to obviously move forward.
That said, Google has a great management console that allows you to control what is on them all from a web gui within their Google Account framework. They offer a management console that allows you to control printers and apps along with many many other things. We did opt to pay the 5 dollar per unit fee to use those features. It’s well well worth the money. Unlike Microsoft that licence carries over even if the chromebook gets destroyed or lost.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Joe
Well, I got this to finally work. I installed SAMBA server and things are good to go! I have a few minor configuration issues to address but nothing serious. Everything is installing properly and tested out. 
Thanks to those who helped! No thanks to Windows Server 2003!
@michael_f Looks like I’m headed the LInux Samba share route for now. I know that setup better. The Server 2003 is being a pain.
@Joe-Schmitt remoted in to our server and well it wasn’t being very kind. It still has permissions issues.
@michael_f I verified and I have access to the share as a user without entering credentials.
@Bob-Henderson I’m with you. We just updated one of our servers to 2008 here this year for our AD. I’m the new guy in the shop and we have budgets to make in a small district. It is what it is at this point.
I’m just happy I’ve been able to at least dedicate some space on our virtual boxes to Linux to run FOG.
@michael_f I have set our driver package on the share and am going to hopefully get ours going the same way. We shall see!
@Joe-Schmitt I still haven’t gotten this set up correctly. If you get a minute this evening, let me know. I’ll be here until 5 MST. I’ll be on and off the forums all afternoon.
I appreciate all of the advice!!
@Joe-Schmitt That share is hosted on our Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Service Pack 2 server. Thanks for repeating your response on forcing the service. I failed to read that. LOL!
All I did when I created that share was follow the share “wizard” and plugged in all of the settings for the various users that need access to the share, including “anonymous login”. You can see the settings in the previous post that I made for “anonymous login”.
@Wayne-Workman I may go that way. I’ve set Samba shares up a bunch of times with no problems and I do have a FreeNAS server setup too. I like the Samba shares better. So we’ll see. I’d kind of like to use the Windows Server for this one though.
Thanks guys!
Cheers,
Joe
Well I was wrong. I mis-remembered 600 sec. It’s actually set to 60 sec.
I must still have something not set right in FOG. Those two printers we looked at last night are both pointing to the correct network location and I still have no printers being installed. Arg…
I plugged in the identical settings into the FOG Printer Manager Helper using the current network location and it installed just fine. No problem at all.
I’m assuming you’ll tell me it’s a system issue with the anonymous user. If it is, what exactly needs to be set?
What is the command to force the client to check with the server?
Is their anything I can check to see what’s going on?
I will be around again after 3 PM MST if you’d like to remote in.
Thanks!
Cheers,
Joe
Is the 600 second delay for the host, the amount of time between when the host checks the server for an update?
What is the Windows command prompt command used to force the host to update?
@Joe-Schmitt I was able to get the Print Manager software to install one of the printers using a new network share I setup. So now it’s just testing to see if the host installs it correctly from the server. Thanks again for the help yesterday!
Cheers,
Joe Gill
Well, I pretty much gave up on using FOG for Xerox printers. I know the driver DLL file the printer uses and pretty much everything else from the WIndows Test Page… But I still can’t seem to get it.
Yeah we had this issue before FOG. When they fall off the AD DC it only allows local accounts to function but still says it’s in AD… Can’t see why it keeps happening but it does periodically. Either way it’s not a FOG issue!
On a FOG printer related note… Do you know of any easy way to determine what driver a printer uses? These Xerox printers have a Universal driver that is installed with a GUI exe file… I can find the directories that have all of the other stuff in them but I can’t get the Printer Manager Helper to be happy with any of them…
Thanks!
Thanks!
I set the permissions to Anonymous Log In Read/Execute and that worked.
One strange thing is that I had 4 of my hosts “fall off of the domain controller”. They loose their trust relationship with our server periodically. Wayne, we talked about this. Sometimes it’s because they get removed from the domain. In this case, it was absolutely not the case. The other admin said, that they do this periodically. We’ll have 3 or 4 a month drop off. You re-add them and everything is fine. Is this normal?
Thanks!
Cheers,
Joe
I have also tried this in powershell with a different script with no luck. Script runs successfully outside of snapin.
Thanks!
Cheers!
OK. So I can successfully make a script to copy the needed driver directory from my network share to my host machine.
robocopy "\\littledogs\tools$\drivers\printers\FOG\Xerox" "C:\Xerox" /E /IS
I save that file as a .cmd file and upload it to the fog server via snapin manager…
After that, I go to my host and deploy the snapin. I get no error messages. But the script does not produce said directories. I can go to the host machine and manually run the script without error.
Any ides?
I found where Xerox installs the inf file… I’ll add that to one of our servers and push that out. Then go from there.
Thanks for making me think!
Cheers,
Joe
We use Xerox printers throughout the district and thankfully they all take the same generic driver. And yes, print manager is pointing me to ntprint.inf for the driver file. The installer we use is a gui so I have no idea where the actual driver file is located.
Alright… I figured out what you meant. I tried adding it and got an error. I’m assuming my install script did not install the inf properly.