Posts made by ssx4life

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If you haven’t looked @ our community windows 7 / driver guide yet I suggest you do so - [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deployment-fog-sad2-driver-tool.380/[/url] It might save you some time / headaches going forward with how to create a windows 7 image and have full driver support built into it.

I don’t know if the dev’s have any plans to update the management portion of the fog client tools in v.33 .

You may want to post this as a bug / request in the dev forums. For now you could look into using 3rd party soltuion to address this… however it’s important to note that Windows 7 doesn’t allow you to simply “delete” the profile account like in windows xp. In XP if you deleted the profile it would simply create a new account with the same name and not be the wiser.

In windows 7 it is apparently linked to the registry, and when you log in as a user that had their account deleted it makes a temp account instead (temp1 / temp2 / etc.) We have checkout laptops here at our school that were on XP and we simply delprof’ed them or wiped the profile out with a .vbs script . But for Windows 7 we haven’t found a good work around solution yet.

We instead have been looking into either wiping the equipment every month (fully automated) or going with something like deep freeze on the heavily used public computers (but who wants to shell $$$ out each year for software licenses if it can be avoided). For now we are just exploring solutions to your question as well.

So to sum it up, I don’t have a simple answer >_<

–ssx–

@pallytank09 I’ll have to dig into seeing why TRK doesn’t boot for you. I know it’s possible, and I’ve seen it work in the past for some people. I just don’t have the time at the moment to research it.

_< Have you checked with the TRK forums yet? I would suggest that you create a new topic in the help forums for this so we don’t keep adding on / appending this topic so it ends up being longer than needed. That way someone else here may be able to help you (or me if I get time)

thanks!

Fog service also pushes out software packages you can customize and build yourself. Can auto-shut down / log off / modify clients remotely (big help).

If you don’t want to use Active Directory for all your software pushing and updates it’s a great work-around solution.

@selutha I run a multi-partition so I can’t say for sure, but look at this setup guide posted in the how-to’s for reference - [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deployment-fog-sad2-driver-tool.380/[/url]

It looks like you have most everything down and complete / done properly. Just double check your work on a few last things

I’m running version 9.X still. When it comes to the fog install I found that once the software was installed, upgrading the server (updates) some times caused problems so I had to roll back.

Each subsequent version of FOG works great with the newest releases, we just run into problems when the OS is newer than the FOG back-end program software at times.

Try loading the storage node option on Ubuntu 9.X desktop or server (depending on how friendly you are with command line)

I know it’s working for 9 (as we’ve got 2 remote sites running nodes on 9.x) Simply take an older pc and install ubnutu on it, run the fog installer and select S for storage node. The rest is fairly straight forward… assuming your networks are on the same VLAN - [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Managing_FOG#Adding_a_Storage_Node[/url]

Let us know if you need any help

Have you tried running the full sysprep with an .xml file yet?

I’ve got Ubuntu 64bit server running on a 128GB SSD. I’ve had good results with the I/O and network speeds. Just make sure that the NIC you end up with on the server install is a quality NIC (not broadcom if you can avoid it). Quality NIC’s really are a night and day difference on servers w/linux in my opinion.

If you virtualized your server setup, you could even use NIC teaming to really push your images out (easy to set up in ESX as well). We’ve got reports of users on the forums here using Fedora with good results - [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/forums/forum/716419/topic/4851544[/url]

As far as snags I haven’t run into any.

Steve thanks for the reply. You can have remote storage nodes in fog, but what I would do is follow the wiki guide above to migrate your images and content over to the new fog server, and then re-run the fog install and select option S for a storage node. What this will do is pair the old server with the new server, and use the old server as a distributed image solution.

I don’t know if you can “change” a standard server to a storage node after the installation has been completed (I’m a linux novice on this aspect). I do know however that if you get the new server up and running properly with your images, the new server will “replicate” directly across to the other server.

I’ve seen other users have a storage node at each remote site location connected via VPN or MPLS. Once a new image, snapin, or client appears on the main server it will auto replicate that image and information over to the second system.

I hope this is what you are looking for… Let us know.

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Here is a guide for adding a second storage node - [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Managing_FOG#Adding_a_Storage_Node[/url]
Here is a video walk through - [media=youtube]X72WthDGwsw[/media]

thanks.

Google helps here

[url]http://www.edugeek.net/forums/o-s-deployment/37654-fog-active-directory.html[/url]
Also look @ page 27 of this guide - [url]http://wiki.rscwmsystems.org.uk/images/4/47/Using_Fog.pdf[/url]

Best practice is to follow the wiki guide as shown here - [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Moving_Between_Servers[/url]

If you have any questions let us know.

In the web console you can set / configure the pc’s to always reboot / reimage on X day at X time. This was an alternative to using software to lock the machines down further, simply reimage them every night / etc.

Look here - [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Managing_FOG#Cron_Style_Task_Scheduling[/url]

I don’t think Fog v.32 supports 4 k sectors at this time… I could be wrong though. I thought this was coming out with v.33

edit yup 4k support in v.33 (see below)

Rewritten PHP code base to be fully Objected Oriented - easier to develop & maintain
Developer Tools - create your own FOG Page's to suit your needs
Hook System - manipulate data & structure easily
Web UI update - tabs, style updates, lots of code updates & bug fixes
Mobile UI update - revamped structure & styles
Partclone - EXT4 & Extended Partition support
[B]Advanced Format Drive support - 4k sector support[/B]

Fog only handles the imaging, it doesn’t handle the system locking of software (something like deep freeze).

If you want to prevent system changes to your computers, look into the free microsoft alternative called steady state (only works on XP though, everything else for windows vista or 7 can be handled by local group policy or domain policy - [url]http://download.cnet.com/Windows-SteadyState/3000-18512_4-11127965.html[/url]

You could set / configure the computers to all “reimage” at the end of the day / week / etc. using the CRON scheduling feature as a possible work around.

Hope this helps

Well a mac address is individualistic, meaning it is unique to the board… this is why Fog uses it for tracking and cataloging.

We use the DMI info and register our computer names based off of the serial number, as well as name them in AD based off the serial #.

Most deployment solutions use the mac address, and truth-be-told I still think that this is the best way. Acronis / Altiris / etc. all use Mac addresses as the single unified primary method of identification. >_<

I really don’t know of a way around what you are trying to do, other than what you’ve already listed above.

Are you running Server 2003 / 2008 / 2008 R2 ? Also is the account you entered with fog crypt an AD admin account with domain add privileges?

Check your fog.log file found in your program files folder. If you can, please post it here so we can assist you with this ^_^

thanks.

Thanks for updating the wiki. Things seem to be moving in a better direction with these new forums

On a side note most Dell E series have this chain loading issue.

It should also be noted that anything ATI and Linux have never played nice with each other. I’ve had to go as far as pull ATI cards out of Dell’s to image them, unless you edit your kernel to support the model (which in some cases is too much work, or not supported yet).

@ Todd Norcross please link / update the working fix for this model card in the developer forum so the next bzimage can support this natively.

thanks.

You can’t install XP over PXE in the traditional sense of booting off the .iso This is due to the way memdisk / ramdisk.sys and the legacy microsoft product’s don’t play nice with each other. Same can be said for BartPE and memdisk (based off of server 2003). You can’t PXE boot bartpe either (without some crazy fan-gangling)

Look here for more info - [url]http://sanbarrow.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1695[/url]