Posts made by Raff
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RE: When does Setupcomplete.cmd run?
Steve, the whole thing works better if the FOG Client is on the computer. You need to get this working to make your life easier.
No reason why you should be visiting end user devices for manual intervention when you can automate the whole thing.
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RE: When does Setupcomplete.cmd run?
This file is created when the FOG service starts on the client computer. Do you have the FOG client installed on your image and is the service set to automatic? (should by default, when the client is installed).
If the client is not on the computers that would explain why the computer names are not renaming.
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RE: The Third Argument [ /images/Optiplex360] must be a valid regular file or fifo...
Looks like Jason beat me to it and gave you the same answer
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RE: The Third Argument [ /images/Optiplex360] must be a valid regular file or fifo...
I’ve not seen this before, Is the OS type for that registered host set to Windows 7? OS type has to match the image.
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RE: When does Setupcomplete.cmd run?
[quote=“Steve Ropiak, post: 11749, member: 47”]Log file? Windows log or does Fog keep it’s own? I did read the Wiki an AD and will test that as well. Thanks for the post.[/quote]
Fog client log file
c:\fog.log
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RE: When does Setupcomplete.cmd run?
Check the log file on the client for reason why the name is not being changed.
For AD join, you need to check the AD setting on the host menu. I suggest you read the section on AD integration in the wiki. For it to be secure you will need to modify the fog client to encrypt your service account password.
It does work well. We have over 3500 Desktops that have the client installed.
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RE: When does Setupcomplete.cmd run?
Steve, I can’t see why a human has to login and set the computer name when the FOG client can do that for you. Also Enabling the Default Administrator account and not creating the temporary account can be done via the xml file. In most cases we only use the setupcomplete.cmd to delete the xml file which exposes the local user passwords. Why not have it fully automated?
The order goes something like this:-
- Sysprep process starts on the imaged computer.
- unattend.xml is executed and customizations are done.
- setupcomplete.cmd is executed which deletes xml file from 2 locations, computer reboots.
- FoG Client checks in and compares computer name to the one in the database if different the client changes the name and reboots the machine.
- FOG Client checks in again and if the setting in the database is set to join the domain, the FOG clients joins the computer to the domain and reboots it.
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RE: Multicasting issues
Make sure the only computers that are in the Multicast group are the 2 computers you wish to deploy too. If there are additional computers in the group, they will sit at the please wait screen for a while until all computers are switch on or the timeout is reached.
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RE: Fog Server - Image Creation Question
The image process for vista/7/8 is different because of the possible inclusion of a System Reserved partition. Your windows 7 image has 2 partitions.
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RE: Fog Server - Image Creation Question
If the Fujitsu Celsius is Windows XP with a single partition that’s normal. The .000 are for vista/7/8
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RE: Ideal Fog Server Setup
Kyle,
You can solve your speed issues quite easily. Don’t image from the HP DC8000, use this for only MYSQL, FOG CONSOLE,TFTP, PXE only (the kernal transfer is slow because its coming from the HP DC8000 and the imaging process it eating all its bandwidth).
The HP DL 380 should be a master storage node, and imaging should be done from this node or any additional master nodes you add in the future.
Your setup should then be able to handle about 10-12 simultaneuos unicasts at each master storage node before you notice a drop in performance for that node only.
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RE: DeployStudios, FOG, and Server 2008 DHCP
We have been using gpexe bootable CDs to boot intel based mac computers into FOG for imaging.
There is a post about this in linux/mac section:- [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-pxe-and-intel-based-apple.856/[/url]
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RE: FOG Client and Host Registration
If you have access to DHCP. Export data to csv and then import to FOG. Then schedule a Hardware Inventroy task in FOG.
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RE: 1 Fog server on multiple subnets (a nic on each)
Yusuf,
We have the master server on our main site which has a single IP address, which we only use for mysql,web,pxe,tftp,wol(no images stored here). We have 5 FOG storage nodes 1 at each remote site and 1 at the main site, each storage node host images for that site to keep imaging traffic local. Each site has mutiple VLANS staff, students etc.
We have 2 Windows DHCP servers with split scopes at our main site serving over 50 VLANS for all sites.
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RE: FOG Client and Host Registration
The windows fog client no longer register’s the clients, it was removed a couple of versions ago. You have to do it manually through pxe menu or import via web console.
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RE: Deploy only working with the original machine... Why??
We need more info, Whats the operating system, does the computer boot, and error message? If I had to guess on the info you provided I would guess its windows 7 and you didn’t run fogprep, sysprep.
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RE: 1 Fog server on multiple subnets (a nic on each)
Why haven’t you got routing between the subnets? All our fog servers are on 1 subnet but are accessed from more than 40 other subnets.
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RE: Kernel Update and different Hardware
On the general tab for any host there is an option to point to a different kernel. Find a host, then look in general options and point to different kernel thats stored in your fog server.
Look at the properties for any host you will see the Host Kernel field.