Posts made by Tom Elliott

@RocksAndRolls I’m guessing, possibly, somebody changed the ftp path for the image location from /images to /home/fogproject/ftp?

@DzOnizuka No you’d have to change your OS /etc/fstab to use the device names over the UUID’s.

Otherwise what you’re capturing is an FSTAB of the “golden” machine, then putting it on a different machine, who’s UUIDs are not the same thing.

@DzOnizuka I dont think it’s grub specifically but rather the fstab.

Debian, and Ubuntu, tend to set the /etc/fstab to use the drive’s UUID to indicate which drive to load the OS from. I’ll bet if your drive layouts are consistent at least (like for like) if your replace the uuid and point specifically at the device name (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb2 etc…) things would work perfectly fine.

@danieln using using expansion variables wouldn’t work because the user doing the expansion of %userprofile% from a snap in is system.

Those types of snap ins work just fine when directed appropriately because there is no user interaction. I suspect the 3rd party tool simulates the interaction via elevated credentials but those interactions will not work from the system user. I know it’s a pain, but that is one limitation of windows and system user. System user has full reign on the OS. It should be able to do these things. However, security wise, it’s a black hole in that any application or service that would run as the system user after being installed by an elevated permission, would also have full reign. So to prevent complete destruction of the OS and experience Microsoft has made it impossible to have the system user directly interact with other users profiles. I see both sides of it. There simply isn’t a way around this currently that I’m aware of.

@danieln the act of “pinning” I believe requires user interaction. I also suspect, possibly, the office 365 is awaiting user interaction. Once the task starts, look at the task manager. My suspicion is you’ll see office installer is running. But it never completes which is why you don’t see it finishing the task on the server.

@NoIPName you didn’t provide a csv. You took a screenshot of an excel of your csv.

That said I suspect there’s an issue on the line of or immediately following the host you aren’t able to import.

I also seem to be seeing the same host name multiple times in your image so that might explain things as well.

Please provide your actual csv.

@Driver while I’d love to support resizing and working with LVM, we do not currently support it. There’s functions to try but I never got around to incorporating it or getting it tested and functioning. Maybe we could revisit but I can assure you I am completely at a loss on how to do it. That’s not to say it cannot be done, I just focused on all things else besides this and the fog client. All help/any help is appreciated especially if it makes fog that much more robust and usable.

@kotson3 I don’t know what’s wrong and with such little information th eonly thing I see is FOG sees it as connection failed. This leads me to think maybe this is something forced for your environment.

Filezilla works because it can just flip a switch when it fails best I can guess. We aren’t filezilla. If you must “drop it out” then so be it. i don’t know what’s wrong and without really much more information, I don’t know what else to say.

in particular I do keep seeing “Entering Extended Passive Mode” which is very very strange. id on’t know what this means and may be playing a part of this?

FOG FTP can support Passive mode but I don’t believe it’s enabled by default.

@kotson3 I’m seeing connection failed, so I’m unsure what/where the problem is occurring.

@NoIPName You’re still using 1.5.9-RC2.9 (???) and @Nicolas-Bricet You too?

can you upgrade ot a more modern version from the stable branch. Pretty sure this may have already long since been addressed.

@kotson3 But you’re not attempting FTP to 10.234.90.212. you seem to be attempting to FTP (in the cli) to 127.0.0.1 or localhost. From what I can tell, your FTP instance isn’t passing over the 10.234.90.212 point.

@Small0145 The filter is the only way, as of now, to do that.

Mind you, the filter works as a comma seperated list.

So if you know all the MACs you want not to be used, that’s how you can ignore it from even potentially registering.

@Small0145 said in Different computers on the same Pending entry:

0A:00:27

I think there’s FOG Settings -> QUICKREG MAC Filter or something, and you can put the partial mac address which effectively would do as you’re requesting.

@Small0145 I don’t recall all the specifics, but it should only associate to an already existing host IF the host mac in use is also approved for use.

@Small0145 Then the only other way I can think of is the machines all have the same hostname.

Pending mac’s are generally found by matching the mac address (or multiples) that are already accepted to a single host.

The machine you’re showing isn’t giving us the MAC address though, at least as far as I can see.

@davidsontiago Have you tried booting the machine and running checkdisk?

Similarly, you should turn off fast booting by opening command prompt and running powercfg /hibernate off then try to capture the image.

@Small0145 Are you using the same network card to image multiple machines? If you are, I would suggest using the “Not for client” option for that specific mac address.

@kotson3 The password that’s in the .fogsettings file is the same password that should be defined for the username in both the storage node (10.234.90.212 of course) and the FOG Settings -> TFTP user/password.

That should be the username/password pair you used to login to from your filezilla program.

That all said, the message doesn’t really tell us if it’s truly invalid login or that the fog server isn’t allowing access from itself to itself. What’s interesting, though, is that I’m assuming you’ve been able to capture images successfully, but you cannot seem to delete it?

@DBCountMan Private key is built to the client at install time. The Public server ca cert is pulled at install time.

So for this to be a “problem”

The person would have to know the IP to download, as well as when installing the client on a new machine configuring it to send to that same server.

What “problem” does this pose? The newly installed client would either already be registered to the FOG Server OR is a brand new and would be behind a “Pending Host/Pending MAC” on the FOG UI.

What you’re suggesting isn’t difficult or problematic itself, so glad you’re sharing, just trying to understand that issue you’re attempting to solve with this beyond restricting it to whatever ip/subnet is being worked.

@lperoma This sounds odd, but somehow you have sysvinit on debian 12, when most modern systems are now using systemd.

That said you should be able to fix this by:
apt install systemd-sysv
Though I don’t know if that’s all that will be necessary?

Now I would, of course, get a backup of your server before blindly running these things