Posts made by kwetiaw

@Wayne-Workman Hi Wayne

I will definitely do this for you next week Monday or Tuesday.

Cheers

I managed to get it working with a USB2.0 to Ethernet Dongle by Lenovo here

It deploys the image successfully but it boot looped because i dont have efi image (surface pro 4 cant do legacy boot anymore)

Anyway, thanks a lot for your help and I wish I could lend/give you a microsoft surface pro 4 for your testing. This is the first one and many to come in the near future in our company here.

It seems that the issue here is the official microsoft docking station not re-acquiring network connection

Cheers

@Wayne-Workman Hi Wayne
I have upgraded to the latest RC 10 but im still stuck at pretty much the same screen

with argument has_usb_nic=1

without argument

Right, now the issue was i didnt have USB keyboard connected. I connected it now.
I have unplug and plug as it requested, didnt seem to getting any IP address. I can confirm the previous screen (first screenshot on my original post) that it found the Fog server 10.3.24.15.

I tried another USB docking station by Lenovo USB3.0 USB, this one fails miserably.

What is the next step do you think? I havent updated to the latest RC 10 and was booting up using the USB with ipxe.efi (latest one from here)

what should i do next?

@george1421 Hi george,

I did search the forum and yes you are right, there are plenty topics about surface pro 4. but I still cant make sense some of it. some require to add has_usb_nic=1 which I have added on the host i created manually. I managed to get a copy of the factory image by using clonezilla and with external USB keyboard.

so should I still need to boot from USB?

@Tom-Elliott I will try upgrading to RC 10 tomorrow. So, that information sd 0:0:0:0 [sda] No Caching mode page found
. will it eventually proceed? I did follow an instruction to add has_usb_nic=1 from one of the forum post.

thanks for all the reply. I will give it try and see how I go with it.

Thanks!

I have tried finding information on this forum but [so far I havent had any luck yet.

My server is ubuntu 14 with fog 1.3.0 RC-8. Dnsmasq with proxydns mode
The target machine is Microsoft Surface Pro 4 with official docking station ms store

I have successfully boot UEFI via USB forum link and got the bootscreen. I have then manually created the host and the boot screen recognized it has been registered.

I was like yay!

But then when I assign a capture task i encountered this error

And that’s it, it hang and not going anywhere. I have to hard power off the surface pro 4.

Here’s my ltsp.conf settings

# Sample configuration for dnsmasq to function as a proxyDHCP server,
# enabling LTSP clients to boot when an external, unmodifiable DHCP
# server is present.
# The main dnsmasq configuration is in /etc/dnsmasq.conf;
# the contents of this script are added to the main configuration.
# You may modify the file to suit your needs.

# Don't function as a DNS server:
port=0

# Log lots of extra information about DHCP transactions.
log-dhcp

# Dnsmasq can also function as a TFTP server. You may uninstall
# tftpd-hpa if you like, and uncomment the next line:
# enable-tftp

# Set the root directory for files available via FTP.
tftp-root=/tftpboot

# The boot filename.
dhcp-boot=undionly.kpxe,,10.3.24.15

# rootpath option, for NFS
dhcp-option=17,/images

# kill multicast
dhcp-option=vendor:PXEClient,6,2b

# Disable re-use of the DHCP servername and filename fields as extra
# option space. That's to avoid confusing some old or broken DHCP clients.
dhcp-no-override

# PXE menu.  The first part is the text displayed to the user.  The second is the timeout, in seconds.
pxe-prompt="Press F8 for boot menu", 3

# The known types are x86PC, PC98, IA64_EFI, Alpha, Arc_x86,
# Intel_Lean_Client, IA32_EFI, BC_EFI, Xscale_EFI and X86-64_EFI
# This option is first and will be the default if there is no input from the user.
pxe-service=X86PC, "Boot from network", undionly

# A boot service type of 0 is special, and will abort the
# net boot procedure and continue booting from local media.
pxe-service=X86PC, "Boot from local hard disk", 0

# If an integer boot service type, rather than a basename is given, then the
# PXE client will search for a suitable boot service for that type on the
# network. This search may be done by multicast or broadcast, or direct to a
# server if its IP address is provided.
# pxe-service=x86PC, "Install windows from RIS server", 1

# This range(s) is for the public interface, where dnsmasq functions
# as a proxy DHCP server providing boot information but no IP leases.
# Any ip in the subnet will do, so you may just put your server NIC ip here.
# Since dnsmasq is not providing true DHCP services, you do not want it
# handing out IP addresses.  Just put your servers IP address for the interface
# that is connected to the network on which the FOG clients exist.
# If this setting is incorrect, the dnsmasq may not start, rendering
# your proxyDHCP ineffective.
dhcp-range=10.3.24.15,proxy

# This range(s) is for the private network on 2-NIC servers,
# where dnsmasq functions as a normal DHCP server, providing IP leases.
# dhcp-range=192.168.0.20,192.168.0.250,8h

# For static client IPs, and only for the private subnets,
# you may put entries like this:
# dhcp-host=00:20:e0:3b:13:af,10.160.31.111,client111,infinite

what am I doing wrong? please help!

@george1421 I should’ve elaborate more.

I have 20 stand alone computers and not managed by a domain.
I want to ensure all these computers have up to date Internet Browser bookmarks without having to update the reference image and redeploy. I often get asked by the centre admin to add new website link to the bookmarks in google chrome.

Maybe by snapins to execute powershell or vbs script to create an icon that is essentially a link to website address.

Hope that make sense

Hi all

Just wondering if this is doable via snapins? or powershell deployed using snapins?

Thanks!

@Wayne-Workman

Yes proxymode,
I pretty much followed this guide to get my fog up and running
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_server

@Sebastian-Roth

How do you specify the dhcp-range? lets say I want to cover all in 10.40.xxx.xxx range?

is this correct?

dhcp-range=10.40.1.10, proxy, 255.0.0.0

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_server

@george1421 @Sebastian-Roth

These are pretty complex and way above my skillset i think. I might leave the 2 major locations separate with their own independent server.
Im not too sure either our network setup here as I dont have access to it.

@Sebastian-Roth I might try adding the dhcp range to my ltsp.conf and see what happens.

Thanks

Hi all

I have 2 sites with different subnets and the current fog server setup on these two locations are independent (both master) both running RC-8 in Ubuntu 14. DNSmasq installed on each of them (since I dont have access to modify the switches)

How do you configure DNSmasq to serve these two locations? For example SITE A has 10.3.XXX.XXX and SITE B has 10.40.XXX.XXX. Is it possible?

Thanks

@Avaryan Thanks matey.

I shouldve mentioned my environment on my post. Windows 10 Enterprise and I just tested with the powershell script you mentioned.

WORKED FLAWLESSLY!!!

Thanks and really really appreciated!

Hi all
is it possible to incorporate chocolatey package manager with snapin? batch file as snapin to call the chocolatey package for example “choco install adobereader” ?

I seen another post here by @apathetic_admin but didnt really specify the sample batch script. apathethicadmin, care to share? thanks!
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/2644/chocolatey-scripts-for-snapins

Please help

I know this is an old thread, but i am trying to achieve the same as @JJ-Fullmer. Automating post install of reboot restore rx using the snap in.

My environment is Fog 1.3.0. RC8 with smartinstaller. So this is not possible?

i fixed this using REVO Uninstaller.

steps
*Installed the legacy client again
*uninstall software from within REVO Uninstaller
*Install new client
*success!

I have tried following this other thread but no success. I cant find the registry entry
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7758/client-install-issues-legacy-uninstall/14\

I also ran registry scanner using ccleaner, but no cigar.

i had legacy client installed on this workstation and i have removed them prior to installing the new smartinstaller.
I have also tried deleting all the possible entry under programfile x86.

Error message “Please uninstall the legacy client and re-run this installer”

My environment is windows 10 enterprise edition x64.

Thanks!