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      Unsolved Imaging PCs in 2024

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      @Joe-Gill
      I work in particular environment : a school.

      All we install is use for a very short period (not more than 2 weeks) , So I don’t need to SysPrep for instance.
      Nearly the same for our software that are pre-installed in our images as they usually are free and for those which are under trial license it depends from a software to another.

      So I’m not using FOG in a “REAL” production environment.

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      2021 Mac Imaging?

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      UPDATE –

      @astrugatch

      I just wanted to follow up on this. I realize this thread is ancient but I feel this is still very much relevant. We ended up going with Mosyle (PAID) for our MAC / Apple MDM. We are unhappy with it. It does not meet either myself or the instructors expectations.

      You are 100% correct, Mosyle does not meet the expectations of a true MDM. It’s clunky and the support is not great. I have not looked at munki yet but am going to pursue that to try and make the most of what we have. I am also looking at another product called FileWave, which is supposed to work very well with pretty much every platform (minus Linux). FileWave is a paid service / subscription.

      Thanks again!

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      Office 365 Device Based Licencing Question

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      Solved FOG service quits running

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      @Joe-Gill Are you still around? Would be great to hear if you still see this issue on some of your machines. I have tried to replicate this problem but wasn’t able to. See here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/13902/fog-service-and-interventions

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      Solved Windows 10 Anonymous Share Issue Printer Management

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      @Wayne-Workman
      @george1421

      I figured this one out… I was having problems with security. One of Windows 10’s recent updates (as in the last 3 months or so) was blocking connections to anonymous shares. It allowed them but they needed to be authenticated. For those of you who stumble across this post…

      Add your FOG server to your domain and configure Kerberos. After you do this you will need to configure your driver share. I have included the way I did mine and it works. This configuration is for using an existing domain controller. In our case, we use Windows Server 2012 to do domain control.

      Do the following:

      yum install samba*
      yum install krb5-libs krb5-workstation

      Confuguration Kerberos /etc/krb5.conf

      [logging]
      default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log
      kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log
      admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kadmind.log

      [libdefaults]
      default_realm = YOURDOMAIN
      dns_lookup_realm = false
      dns_lookup_kdc = false
      ticket_lifetime = 24h
      renew_lifetime = 7d
      forwardable = true

      [realms]
      DOMAIN.TN = {
      kdc = dns-name-your-domain-controller
      }

      [domain_realm]
      netbiosnameyourdoamin = NETBIOSNAMEYOURDOMAIN
      netbiosnameyourdomain = NETBIOSNAMETYOURDOMAIN
      Configuration samba /etc/samba/smb.conf

      [global]

      workgroup = DOMAIN
      password server = dns-name-your-domain-controller:88
      realm = NETBIOSNAMETYOURDOMAIN
      security = ads
      idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
      idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
      template shell = /bin/bash
      winbind use default domain = false
      winbind offline logon = true

      log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
      max log size = 50

      passdb backend = tdbsam

      load printers = yes
      cups options = raw

      [homes]
      comment = Home Directories
      browseable = no
      writable = yes

      [printerdrivers]
      comment = All FOG Printers
      path = /PATHTODRIVERS
      browseable = no
      guest ok = no
      writable = yes

      Add dns name in /etc/hosts

      Install and configuration ntp server (It’s important for use Kerborose authorization)

      yum install ntpd
      edit /etc/ntp.conf
      server ip-address-your-ntp-server prefer
      Create ticket
      kinit account-admin-for-active-directory@NETBIOSNAMETYOURDOMAIN
      Add server in domain

      net ads join -S dns-name-your-domain-controller -U account-admin-for-active-directory
      Create keytab for Kerberos

      net ads keytab create -U account-admin-for-active-directory
      Edit file /etc/nsswitch.conf

      passwd: files winbind
      shadow: files winbind
      group: files winbind

      Restart samba and windind

      Test
      net ads info
      wbinfo -t

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      Printers Snapin INF File Select Feature

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      @Sebastian-Roth

      Sounds great! Like I said, let me know what you all are working on and I’ll do my best. I do have some background in programming but it’s been a bit. I am trying to pick up Python and do a little teaching here at our district.

      I worked in UNIX for a couple years at one of my first computer jobs. They hired me because I liked tinkering in Linux. I’ve used Linux since the first iterations of Redhat. 🙂 The FOG project does draw you in. It’s a great thing. Some of us can’t afford to throw cash at it but certainly am willing to donate time.

      So keep me posted! Thanks!

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      Solved Snapin Not Deploying

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      I’m on fire today guys… I apologize for all of these mis-posts… The reason why my FOG hosts aren’t getting jobs is because my old server is still online… I was running an old image that had my previous server IP on it for the client…

      Boy oh boy! Glad it was that simple. I believe that is the end of it.

      Please mark this as solved.

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      Solved Snapin Not Updating

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      Nevermind!!! My browser must have been being an issue…

      Disregard this thread. SMH…

      Ha!

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      Solved Storage Nodes Not Showing Up

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      In a remote session we figured out that the database schema version was kind of oddly set. Still not sure why that was. Fixed that and applied the last couple of schema changes. That fixed a couple of odd issues including the Storage Node setting changes that can be done now again.

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      Solved Multi-Task Problem

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      @Fernando-Gietz
      @Sebastian-Roth

      Fernando’s fix takes it! That worked!

      The first statement didn’t produce any results. But the second one did and after I restarted Multicasting, things are working again! Woo Whoo!

      Thanks guys! I owe you both a beer!

      Cheers!

      For the record, if anyone else has this issue…

      This was the fix…

      ALTER TABLE multicastSessions ADD COLUMN msAnon4 VARCHAR(250) AFTER msAnon3;
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      Solved Website Issue

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      @Tom-Elliott
      Strange. What’s even weirder is it started working once I entered into a forum thread… Now it’s working fine. LOL!

      For what it’s worth, I’m running Ubuntu 19 and the Chrome Browser…

      I’m OK with it since it’s working now. Can’t explain it though! Ha!

      Thanks Tom!

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      Unsolved Keeping WIN10 Images Updated (Windows Updates)

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      @Joe-Gill said in Keeping WIN10 Images Updated (Windows Updates):

      Thanks for that info. I’m looking into setting up a server with MDT on it. Hopefully that will help these issues.

      FWIW: For MDT you don’t need a server class machine or OS. You can use desktop os and computer for this task. Virtualize if you can, but lower class physical hardware for “MDT server” is usable.

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      Unsolved WIN 10 DVD Drive Issues After Imaging

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      @Joe-Gill Great to hear you are making progress here! Definitely seems like one of the more difficult ones to figure out. Keep it up! 🙂

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      Solved WIN10 Shutsdown After Host Reboots Post SysPrep

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      @Wayne-Workman

      You can mark this one solved.

      I deleted ALL power management entries. (Regardless of seeing any listed.) I haven’t had any hosts shutdown since.

      Thanks again!

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      Solved FOG Install Fails at Web Services

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      @tom-elliott
      OK that would make since. I’d say that is not an issue.

      I was jumping back and forth from 1.5.4 to 1.6 yesterday trying to get some kind of stability. Currently I’m on 1.5.4 and have moved on to other projects. But… Would love to get things going again to multicast. PM me if you have any ideas please.

      Thanks!

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      Solved Multitasking - Not All Clients Start Tasking

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      @joe-gill Well in a way I’m glad this issue was a FOG specific one, but rather an infrastructure. I can say multicasting is a bit of a fickle beast no matter what imaging technology you are using. When it works, its great.

      It sounds like your network was configured for dense mode multicasting where it would just send the mutlicast stream to all ports even if there were no multicast subscribers.

      Thank you for providing solid feedback and sticking with this issue until it is resolved.

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      Solved WIN10 Multicast Imaging Issues

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      george1421G

      I remoted into Joe’s system and looked about for a bit.

      What I found was there was/is 3 versions of php and php-fpm installed and all were trying to run at the same time.

      I stopped, php-fpm v5, php-fpm v7.0, and left php-fpm 7.2 running.

      I could not find a handy copy of the official fog configuration for the www.conf file so I hand edited the distro’s version setting max processes to 50, start, min to 5 and spares to 6. I also set php max memory size to 256M.

      After that I asked Joe to multicast deploy an image. He reported that he deployed to 24 systems. I watched the process status screen and the number of active php-fpm processes never went above 6 workers (where 50 is the max). Joe stated that all 24 machines deployed to completion.

      So at this point I’m pretty sure the issue with this system was having multiple versions of php installed as the root cause. I’m not ready to rule out a www.conf file setting that is not right, but I’m happy with what I saw from the performance of php-fpm service in this multicast deployment.

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      Solved Win10 FOG Client Power Management Problem

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      @joe-schmitt
      I see. I did discover a BIOS/UEFI setting on this lab model that does not allow the computer to completely go to sleep. This may at least let me invoke shutdown or WOL. We’ll see. Otherwise, I can always use CRON to set the shutdown settings after things have been updated.

      Thanks again!

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      Unsolved FOG Interface Completely Unresponsive

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      @george1421
      As always, I appreciate the help! I am happy to help out where I can.

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      Unsolved FOG 1.5.2 Image Capture Lags

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      @quazz

      So I tried re-capturing the image from my VM and it finally finished but took forever. I left a ping running on the host and the server and never had any lost packets. I had some higher ping times going to the VM were average with one very high number. But never any packet loss.

      I decided to try and capture the image to a brand new image and not one I had used previously. I noticed my transfer rate was higher and it ultimately finished capturing the image.

      Could the delay simply be the difference between imaging a Windows 10 machine versus a Windows 7 Machine? This is the first image I have created of a Windows 10 machine.

      Let me know if you have any thoughts on this.

      Thanks again for making me think more about it. 🙂

      Cheers!

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