[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOGUserGuide#Location_Plugin[/url]

You can set up the location plugin, as Junkhacker said.

Basically, you set it up to control storage nodes that reside within each broadcast domain in your entire network. It’s a several step process to add the location plugin, and it’s done through the FOG web GUI. I don’t know about setting up the storage nodes, but I do believe there’s an option specifically for this during FOG’s installation.

I’m currently in the process of better documenting this plugin because, contrary to popular belief among regular FOG users, I find it not simple. I hope to produce some excellent documentation within a few weeks to be listed within the WiKi.

Edit the logo file so that the logo is in a spot where the bars won’t cover it up.

That’s the quick and easy fix, it’s what I’d do.

[quote=“MrsPotter, post: 43841, member: 27740”]Yes - thanks. Your suggestions make sense. And, yes one can build remarkably complex images with all the tools MS provides. And, we do that also. And, yes GPO is great (could have been more user friendly), and we use it extensively. However, it is for a great many reasons not entirely practical with this particular setup we have.

Having Partimage check if the image is restorable would be a nice to have though :). I was assuming one could tweak this through some sort of advanced setting. Even, if you do a SysPrep you would want to be sure it was imaged correctly before you even move on to the testing phase. Maybe I should list this under feature requests? It would also be cool if one could have more than one image associated with a certain PC.

Other than that - all my thumbs are up - FOG seems like a very neat piece of software :)[/quote]

I suppose the ultimate test would be to just do a image deployment of said image. That would be better than any software check.

[quote=“Barry Tabrah, post: 43846, member: 27717”]Okay, I managed to use wget to fetch the svn and now I’m stuck on the install. It’s stuck on Copying needed repo…
Is there a way to skip this step? Maybe a way to manually enter the details?[/quote]

[CODE]svn co -r 3112 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk /opt/fog_trunk[/CODE]

Someone else might need to help from there…

I’d suggest updating your system before trying to install?

[CODE]yum clean all[/CODE]
[CODE]Yum update[/CODE]

I also might add that official Fedora 21 support wasn’t added till r2920…

You might just love that version, but I’d recommend the current dev version because it’s really, really nice.

Tom (the senior developer) has worked tirelessly to tackle bugs in FOG… A re-install using the latest developmental version (is it r3111 ?) might just make this problem go away.

Re-installing ins’t a big ordeal… Normally, it just uses the previous config and blows through it like nothing. You might get some DB errors when that updates but they are non-impacting. And I MUST say that the new Web GUI is down-right sexy.

Some instructions here: [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/SVN[/url] Some more instructions are in that WiKi link I posted earlier, towards the top.

RCP is running, right?

The normal setup is to have images stored in /images
So, you wouldn’t need to change the exports file to /home/images. It should be pointing to wherever they actually are.

There is a way to change the credentials used, it’s in Storage Management, through the web GUI. But, whatever you set it to, that user must exist on the machine with the images on it, and that user must have permissions on that directory.

Normally, people are told to set the permissions to 777 just for troubleshooting purposes.

I noticed in the installation log that this machine is configured as a storage node. So now, you potentially have two machines to troubleshoot.

But, because your errors say “Permission Denied”, I would focus on permissions. Like NFS, the exports file, the directory permissions, making sure all the credentials are correct…

I have no idea what’s wrong, but obviously it’s the switch and/or router config.

Just to get things rolling for when someone begins to help, you might post your start up configuration for a random switch, and your router? You can post it as a text file, or just right in the forum using the CODE tool, feel free to XXXX out external IP addresses and other sensitive things.

Someone here will help you, just sit tight.

[quote=“abstert, post: 43823, member: 23224”]Yeah, I was trying to hide the IP, as if it mattered since it’s internal.

The FOG version is 1.2.0. I tried the steps earlier, but there is no “/home/images” to place in the exports file.[/quote]

Ok, so have you ever successfully imaged with this machine?
Where are your images stored?
Can you post your FOG installation log? It’s here: [SIZE=12px]/var/log/foginstall.log[/SIZE]
Have you checked that NFS is running? Or, whatever it’s called in Cent OS?
Is this just for Unicast, or Multicast?
Do you have the firewall off?

Another thing to try is mount the location of your images on a separate machine, using your Cent OS FOG user’s credentials, and see if that succeeds or not…

Why not have a base image instead?

That’s what I do, I think that’s what most people do.

You can use SysPrep to generalize a machine before you take an image (I don’t do this though, I keep an image per model), and include whatever drivers you need for all your models.

Custom software installations can be deployed per machine through Active Directory’s GPO software installation, or through a GPO based script for particular machines.

When I image a system, and FOG auto names, and auto joins to the domain, GPO takes care of a GREAT majority of software for me.

This class has this, that class has that… this person has that one weird thing… All done through GPO…

And, with a lot of older educational software, I can just put that software into a read only share folder, and have GPO create desktop shortcuts to it for the entire building to use.

My aim is to make my job as easy as possible, because I don’t have the time to sit at some machine installing a pile of custom software that it needs.

That’s just my two cents… Maybe re-examine how you’re doing things… Especially if you administer that Domain which you speak of.

[quote=“abstert, post: 43820, member: 23224”]I have a similar issue but this is when I’m downloading an image to a client machine.
I get:

• Mounting File System…Failed
  mount: mounting <IP ADDRESS OF FOG SERVER>:/images/ on /images failed: Permission Denied
  [ATTACH=full]1783[/ATTACH]

This is on a CENTOS 6.5 system[/quote]

Does it actually say that anywhere? the <IP ADDRESS OF FOG SERVER> ?? Was just wondering if you edited that out or not because the IP clearly shows in your picture.

Have you followed Tom’s help from earlier in this thread?

What version of FOG are you running?

Ok, a few things.

What FOG version are you running? 1.2.0 ? An SVN dev version?

I can offer a few troubleshooting commands specifically for Fedora 21 right here:

[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOG_(r2922)Configuration_on_Fedora_21_Workstation_inside_Windows_Server_2012_Hyper-V_using_ProxyDHCP#FOG_Server_Troubleshooting_Help.28Fedora_21.2C_r2922_.26_up.29[/url]

Also, I’m currently working on some information gathering scripts meant for general troubleshooting. It’s still a work in progress, but seeing that you’re using Fedora 21, you might find them helpful. You can find them here:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/lets-make-scripts.12551/[/url]

This is just a starting point. I’m still new to FOG myself. Others may know what the problem is immediately, but I don’t so, we’ll start with that troubleshooting.

maybe try these?

[url]http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/321097-how-install-windows-7-uefi-mode-usb.html[/url]
[url]http://forums.hexus.net/windows/296453-installing-windows-7-uefi-machine.html[/url]
[url]http://superuser.com/questions/676249/clean-install-of-windows-7-pro-64-bit-on-a-uefi-laptop-with-gpt-partition[/url]
[url]http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2011/05/31/installing-windows-7-on-uefi-based-computer.aspx[/url]

So, the bandwidth sitting at 0, and it doesn’t image? Or does it image?

We need to troubleshoot EXACTLY what change in the web GUI is causing this… wiping/reinstalling (while I understand you need to remain productive at work) does not help us do that.

I think that’s easily done in the current SVN revision.

The newer revisions actually have a web GUI for editing the boot menu to your liking, including just quick-registering clients that aren’t registered. That’s probably the most common use for it.

Digital Dog,

I’d like to point out that you don’t need to follow the previous guy’s documentation to a “T”. The FOG WiKi has lots of well written tutorials for installing FOG on many major flavors of Linux. Although I use Fedora myself, the most easy best is probably Ubuntu.

If you currently don’t have a working FOG box, there’s not a lot to loose… Have you recovered the old images? Keep the old documentation, just in case there’s any custom & wild configurations that are necessary in your environment.

That’s just my suggestion… Only because you’ve stumped people with this problem… Wipe and start new, don’t spend unnecessary time trying to fix some crazy problem that nobody has seen before.

And of course, we’re here to help you when you need it.

[quote=“Junkhacker, post: 43722, member: 21583”]if you want the tech to have rights to do this, they can log into fog to do the change from the computer they’re sitting at. if the tech isn’t familiar with operational procedures, why is he changing computer names?
that’s my opinion, anyway[/quote]

They have the rights to do it, this person just hasn’t fully accepted FOG yet, and might even be intimidated by it.

So, I brought this whole suggestion up because this actually happened today. I got it cleared up, was not a big issue.

But, I was thinking, obviously the FOG client checks the host name, because otherwise how would it know to change it?

If it checks the host name, and sees that a change has been recently changed at the host itself, yet no imaging has occurred, why couldn’t the FOG client change the host name in the FOG database instead of on the host itself?

Could be a check box in the Web GUI… “If client detects manual host name change, update FOG database instead of client”

I think someone had a similar issue to this before, and re-installing the FOG client on the image fixed it.

Gotta use the client that comes from your FOG server. It’s available in the Web GUI for download.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43712, member: 7271”]The hostname changer is supposed to rename, then rejoin if that is the case. Of course this would mean your AD account would need admin permissions to allow the change/update properly I believe.[/quote]

But what if a tech that isn’t familiar with FOG comes in and changes a host name at an actual host, using windows…

and then it reboots, and changes back to the old name automatically… And their like wtf???

The new FOG client should detect that and change the hostname in the FOG database to the new one.