It ended up being that all of my PCs were in AHCI mode when they needed to be in IDE. It’s all solved now! Thanks!

After doing some more testing, I’ve found that:

Host PC running a virtual machine, virtual machine will do EVERYTHING perfectly! No errors.
Same host PC will only do quick inventory. Can’t mount NFS because of RPC issue.

Why does a virtual machine work but the physical box does not when they are on the same exact subnet, port, everything?
The only difference is that I have IP reservations on my DHCP server for the physical boxes and not the virtual machines.

The error is: “RPC No Route to Host” whenever I attempt to mount the NFS share to upload an image.

There must be a reason as to why these computers can’t find their way back to the Fog server.

Well, I spoke too soon…

Last night, I was remoted into virtual machines on physical PCs in different subnets and that worked.

This morning, I tried to perform a full registration and image the physical PCs in different subnets and I am still getting the RPC error.

When I perform a quick registration, it works. When I perform a full registration, it just keeps trying to send the information but it never completes.

My DHCP server gave the virtual machines no reserved IP address where as my physical boxes get a reserved IP. Maybe that has something to do with it? Not sure.

I GOT IT!

I read this post earlier today and didn’t think much of it. Turns out, it fixed my issue.

I had to edit my.conf and change bind-address to my Fog server IP instead of 127.0.0.1.

Thank you so much, Tom! I couldn’t have fixed it without your support. I greatly appreciate it!

That’s something that I’ll look into! I’ll see what I can do tomorrow morning and hopefully, I’ll be able to get it working. I think that you’re right though. I’ll keep you posted on how it goes tomorrow!

There’s no internal firewall on the network and the Ubuntu Server that Fog is running off of has its firewall disabled.

I’m thinking about when I first installed Fog. It asks me what my router’s IP address was and I set it to the IP of my Windows DHCP Server.

I think that we’re close to figuring this out!

I just tried to upload an image from a machine on the same subnet as the Fog and DHCP server and it worked!

Any ideas on why it’s not having my machines on other subnets route to the NFS share correctly?

I upgraded this morning to the latest version of the kernel.

Alright. I’ll try to modify my exports file in a second.

What’s interesting is that the NFS share mounts perfectly fine through an NFS client on Windows. I don’t know why PXE can’t get to it.