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@jonathancomputer My initial guess is that it’s caused by the printer name on the computer not matching the Printer Alias. I will need to do some tests to confirm this though.

@Wayne-Workman To be frank, you’re spot on. Tom is just … Tom. And I have to balance my university studies, job(s), FOG coding, FOG forums, and the website contact form. So we don’t really have the time nor motivation to have regular updates. But with that said, with FOG 2.0 we are aiming to have almost all of the development team far more active, and we plan to have relatively constant updates on our progress with 2.0 simply because of how long it will take.

@Oma-Voss, @Wayne-Workman is correct. Nearly all of the time you get this error it’s caused by an incorrect server address / web root set in the installer.

@frankcaputo Can you post the client log file? (C:\fog.log), or at least the Snapin section where it tries running it.

Here’s my 2 cents:

Option 1.) Make a plugin. Please don’t even attempt to edit FOG gui without using a plugin. The plugin API is much simpler to use.
Option 2.) Make a bash script. It could copy the image directory and the appropriate SQL data.

@arnaudrigole It’s likely caused by a virtual network adapter (e.g. a TAP driver, virtualbox, vmware, …).

From the log file, here’s the macs your machine has:

• B8:08:CF:3C:95:CE
• 00:A0:C6:00:00:14
• B8:08:CF:3C:95:CA
• 28:F1:0E:2D:C4:6A
• 02:50:41:00:00:01
• 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0

I would search each one of them in the fog ui under your host list. At least one of them will return multiple hosts.

@issa1998 could you try re-uploading the photo?

@Uncle-Frank in the long run (for FOG 2.0) it’d be best to have a proxy dhcp written in Node.js in order to ensure universal compatibility. Judging by my initial impressions from CloneDeploy’s solution, it shouldn’t be overly difficult or unreasonable to achieve.

@arnaudrigole If you search for each mac (individually) that I listed previously in your FOG web ui as Tom and I have been suggesting then you would see those duplicates.

@herrpommesfrite The only way both versions could be “installed” at once is if v0.9.12 was installed first and then later someone / GPO installed v0.9.11 .

Our current builds use “admin” as the username for the web portal.

@blkspade please upload one of the C:\Program Files (x86)\FOG\settings.json of a problematic host along with its fog.log file.

@ITCC upgrading FOG will maintain its identity, so long as you don’t use --recreate-CA

@Wayne-Workman, while I can see where you are coming from I would be highly opposed to what you suggest. As the lead developer of the new client, I more than maybe anyone else, would want to see people using the new client. However, imagine this scenario:

A company has 2k hosts. Let’s assume each one has the legacy client installed. The legacy client polls at around 6 times every 10 minutes, for a total of 36 polls every hour. A singlenew client will poll approximately 10 times every minute, for a sum of 600 polls per hour. Now multiply that by the 2k hosts and you’re server is recieving around 1,200,000 requests per hour. In addition to the increased polls, the overhead (cost) of sending a message to the new client is significantly higher. Each transmission undergoes AES 256 encryption. The increased network stress alone for an un-configured service would have the effect of a DDOS attack on the server.

This rough aproximation does not even take into account the cost of having 2k clients perform their initial server pinning and handshake, which would make the server perform over 2,000 rounds of RSA 4096 encryption in a matter of minutes, followed by several rounds of AES 256 per host. In addition, each host communication would require 2 databases fields to be updated on first handshake. This means the upgrade will effectively create over 4000 database write requests in a short period of time.

With that said, even if we were to ignore the operational overhead caused by such a system-wide upgrade, I am strongly opposed to forcing the clients to update. Many people have a working 1.2.0 setup and are used to the legacy client. When they upgrade the server, it should be, and is, their responsibility to slowly migrate their system over to the new client. Now I am doing my best to make an easy upgrade path to the new client, but for such system-wide change, it should be up to them to do.

@cojohnson 12/14/2016 12:35 PM Middleware::Authentication ERROR: Could not get security token just means the client has never successfully authenticated before. It only receives a token after the first successful authentication.

In general we recommend installing the client IN the image, as the tokens are automatically reset when an imaging task is performed. However, you should never have to continuously reset encryption data, only when you manually install / uninstall the client.

@Jonathan-Cool “PDFCreator printer.” is a software printer. That means when you “print to it”, it actually sends the request to an installed piece of software on the computer. FOG cannot manage these.

@george1421

@Tom-S and I designed a new style of groupings for hosts in fog 2.0 awhile back (while not completely “hashed out”, it seems to fit what everyone in this thread has been asking for).

The basic concept is to introduce a hierarchy of priorities. An example hierarchy would look like:

 -> host
---> group 1
-------> group 2

With the above example, host specific settings will supersede all groups, group 1 will supersede group 2, and so on. We could easily add a button to make an on-demand overwrite of hosts settings with group settings, essentially “clearing” individual host overloads. A group wouldn’t need to define every possible setting, just the ones you want. So with this approach groups are persistent, you can have multiple groups, and you can still override specific settings per-host.

@AngryScientist fog.log is found one the host computer (usually C:\fog.log or C:\Program Files (x86)\FOG\fog.log)

@Timo Batch lacks the ability to download a file natively. Here is a vbs script which should do what you are looking for.

Save the code as “Bootstrap.vbs”, and update the http://fog-server/MyProgram.exe line to reflect a real URL where your snapin can be downloaded, the easiest way may be to just copy your snapin file to /var/www/html/, and then it is accessible via http://{fog-server}/MyProgram.exe, where Myprogram.exe is the file name. Also update references to MyProgram.exe to your program’s file name.

Note that this code is untested.

Use the following snapin settings:
Snapin Run With: cscript
Snapin Run With Args: //B //Nologo
Snapin File: Bootstrap.vbs

Bootstrap.vbs code:

'http://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech_internet_download.php

HTTPDownload "http://fog-server/MyProgram.exe", "C:\"

Dim objShell
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
objShell.Run("C:\MyProgram.exe")
Set objShell = Nothing


Dim fso
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
fso.DeleteFile("C:\MyProgram.exe")
Set fso = Nothing


Sub HTTPDownload( myURL, myPath )
' This Sub downloads the FILE specified in myURL to the path specified in myPath.
'
' myURL must always end with a file name
' myPath may be a directory or a file name; in either case the directory must exist
'
' Written by Rob van der Woude
' http://www.robvanderwoude.com
'
' Based on a script found on the Thai Visa forum
' http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21832

    ' Standard housekeeping
    Dim i, objFile, objFSO, objHTTP, strFile, strMsg
    Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8

    ' Create a File System Object
    Set objFSO = CreateObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" )

    ' Check if the specified target file or folder exists,
    ' and build the fully qualified path of the target file
    If objFSO.FolderExists( myPath ) Then
        strFile = objFSO.BuildPath( myPath, Mid( myURL, InStrRev( myURL, "/" ) + 1 ) )
    ElseIf objFSO.FolderExists( Left( myPath, InStrRev( myPath, "\" ) - 1 ) ) Then
        strFile = myPath
    Else
        WScript.Echo "ERROR: Target folder not found."
        Exit Sub
    End If

    ' Create or open the target file
    Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile( strFile, ForWriting, True )

    ' Create an HTTP object
    Set objHTTP = CreateObject( "WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1" )

    ' Download the specified URL
    objHTTP.Open "GET", myURL, False
    objHTTP.Send

    ' Write the downloaded byte stream to the target file
    For i = 1 To LenB( objHTTP.ResponseBody )
        objFile.Write Chr( AscB( MidB( objHTTP.ResponseBody, i, 1 ) ) )
    Next

    ' Close the target file
    objFile.Close( )
End Sub

Just make a cron script (see https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/crontab.5.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/5/crontab)

So for example

@reboot /my/expand/script

Just be sure to delete the cron entry after it runs (you can probably make the script do this).