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Any update on when we might see .33 RC1?

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Found this site a few days ago,[url]http://evilrouters.net/achievement-unlocked/[/url]. For anyone that has worked in IT, i’m sure you could relate at some point. I’ll post them up, hopefully you’ll get a good laugh.

Kevin

Yes the password in there would make a difference. On my FOG server my,under the config.php, my TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD is the same as it is under (WebUI) Storage Management > All Storage Nodes > DefaultMember > Management Password. These two need to match in order for FTP to work. Also, the password needs to match under (WebUI) Other Information > FOG Settings > TFTP Server > FOG_TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD. No idea though on a green folder.

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The /images folder I think is tied directly to the FOG user account. If you selected the defaults when you installed the server, the password would be located under the storage nodes tab under with WebUI. This will be a long encrypted password. If you want a quick workaround, although not that secure, type this command “sudo chmod 777 /images” without the quotes. This will make the /images folder available to everyone on that system, but it’ll give full access so permissions wouldn’t be an issue.

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Is this the patch you were looking for? [url]http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3366367&group_id=201099&atid=976201[/url]

This patch by Rowlett allows clients to use other FOG servers based on location.

Kevin

@matt, I think you mean virtualize Here are my two cents on physical vs. virtual:

In my opinion, most servers should be virtual. I prefer our FOG servers to be virtual in our environments for the following reasons:

All of our servers are backed up daily, and virtual servers are really just 1 file, the virtual hard disk.
Real servers are built on much better hardware, i.e. Intel Xeon, redundant power supplies etc - more efficient and better reliability
If your server is in a data center (depending on the size company) there is a good chance you would be on a 10Gbe backbone, or a trunked 1Gbe connection, whereas on a physical box, you would more than likely be on a 1Gbe at most.
If you need to beef up a server, it’s as simple as moving a slider or clicking a box in a drop down menu. You don’t physically upgrade anything (assuming you have extra power to tap from your physical server box)

If you want to see the benefits of virtual PC’s I recommend trying VMWare view, or if you are looking for a more server type solution, to look at VMWare ESXi. Both products are free. (There are others out their as well, however, you will find VMWare to be the “industry standard” which is why i’m suggesting these products.)

Kevin

This is what my vsftp.conf file looks like:

anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_std_format=YES
listen=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=NO
tcp_wrappers=YES

Kevin

Keep us posted on what you find out and good luck!

Kevin

So, I may be wrong, but if you aren’t using a Windows server, it might not actually be ports 66 and 67 that you need to configure. Try to configure port 69 UDP on your FortiGate as this is that devices TFTP port.

Page 260 of this document:

[url]https://encrypted.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=allow tftp traffic fortigate&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.fortinet.com%2Ffgt%2Fhandbook%2F40mr3%2Ffortigate-system-admin-40-mr3.pdf&ei=Y-I1T7mfD8angwfZu-znBQ&usg=AFQjCNEcUiMM5JstGxmRc9AAzBTvVXsmCw&sig2=28Eu3vcZ9-Gea-hmSQw0rA&cad=rja[/url]

Kevin

Ok, one last question before this really gets chipped away at. When you setup the FOG server, did you set it up to act as a DHCP server to assign IP’s to the PXE clients? Or did you setup FOG to point to your DHCP server to have your actual DHCP server assign IP’s to your PXE clients?

Kevin

Is your FOG server isolated on its own network, or is it on a live network environment?

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When you say that you’ve tested TFTP. Do you mean through the OS, or you actually PXE booted the PC’s and the linux box could boot to the FOG menu and the Windows box couldn’t?

Kevin

Is drive space an issue for storing your images? Upping the compression on your images is really going to work your server more.

Kevin

You should only need 66 and 67 for FOG on your DHCP server.

Kevin

At home I run FOG on VMware Workstation 8 on “the rig” (see my signature). At work, we run it on a server running ESX and vSphere with a Intel Xeon E7-L8867. This images around 9,200 computers for us. We mainly use FOG for imaging and the hardware inventory. We also use snap-ins as a backup to SCCM.

Kevin

So, is this the first release that’s going to use Partclone? Correct me if i’m wrong, but isn’t FOG using Partimage as of .32? I know i’ll be waiting to test clonezilla for “offline” imaging when that time comes. But looking forward to the new release. Really looking forward to the new developer tools

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So let’s get a thread going on your setup. What do you have FOG running on, a physical server or VM? What are the specs of your servers? What main features do you use of FOG? How many computers do you have working with FOG? What OS do you have FOG running on? What kind of network do you have FOG running on? (10Gbe backbones? 1Gbe to PC’s? 100 meg to PC’s?) Of course, nothing personal should be posted about what company you work for etc.

Kevin

are you running the msi installer with the msiexec -i command from within your snapin page?