kevbaz Posted June 17, 2009 Author Posted June 17, 2009 hi folks, after wrestling with fog for annother week or so it is now up and running and now on a 1TB drive as opposed to the origional 40gb ( i was unable to image/clone it to the TB drive so had to reinstall from scratch...) we have successfully used fog to gather and distribute images so its all good, however i do have one issue. When trying to gather an image from a certain machine type (scl online machines with MSI MS-7507 motherboad) it will boot from pxe fine, but when it comes to loading the actual blue imaging screen, which shows your progress etc, it flashes up for a split second and then is gone again. any ideas at all as to what could cause this and possible fixes? cheers Kev
kevbaz Posted June 17, 2009 Author Posted June 17, 2009 Resolved... despite it being a single disk with a single partition, choosing single disk multiple partition works..
p858snake Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 Check the drive to see if it has a small recovery partition maybe?
kevbaz Posted June 17, 2009 Author Posted June 17, 2009 it was completely formatted and a clean install of windows was put on, just one of those things i guess, im happy its working atleast
kevbaz Posted June 17, 2009 Author Posted June 17, 2009 quick question... Trying to get it to auto domain the machines, how on earth do you encrpyt the password for the password field?
PRicho Posted June 22, 2009 Posted June 22, 2009 Everything is set on DHCP as per the user guide right ? Dono what your using for DHCP. Thats just a quick guess. Yeah DHCP is fine, like i say it boots PXE fine.. shows the fog logo and then stops at the command prompt for a few seconds, if you dont type anything it just boots from the hard drive.
clarky2k3 Posted June 22, 2009 Posted June 22, 2009 (edited) quick question... Trying to get it to auto domain the machines, how on earth do you encrpyt the password for the password field? Use this 'guide' it takes a bit of know how then its fine, however for the client the join the domain you must have on the image Windows XP Support Tools installed and you must leave the image on a workgroup not joined to a domain. Edited June 22, 2009 by clarky2k3
kevbaz Posted June 22, 2009 Author Posted June 22, 2009 which guide? on a seperate note, clamav refuses to work, im guessing its because it needs to check online for updates, but as im behind a proxy thats not very cooperative any ideas how to get round it?
maniac Posted June 22, 2009 Posted June 22, 2009 quick question... Trying to get it to auto domain the machines, how on earth do you encrpyt the password for the password field? You have to use a little program called Fogcrypt, which is on the fog server. My advice is to create a specific add2domain account for fog to use, and not to use the normal administrators account for this purpose, because everytime you change your administrators password you'll have to change all the passwords in fog, which can be a right pain in the backside when you've got several hundred machines in it! Mike. 1
kevbaz Posted June 23, 2009 Author Posted June 23, 2009 Found fogcrpyt but no idea how to actually use it? any pointers? thanks
maniac Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 It's command line based. Goto command prompt, and get to the Fogcrypt directory then type Fogcrypt yourpassword You should get a response like F:\FOGCrypt>fogcrypt password Input string: password Passkey: ############# Output: 52498fbfb2bba2c02ec81c17036949b9 Copy and paste the output string into fog in the password field and it will then allow Fog to add the machine to the domain. Also one gotcha with this which caught me out, you MUST have the microsoft support tools installed on the workstation that fog is adding to the network, specifically the program netdom.exe is needed to perform the domain functions. Mike. 1
kevbaz Posted June 23, 2009 Author Posted June 23, 2009 (edited) excellent thanks for the tip I have cd'd to the fogcrypt directory but when i try fogcrypt Password i get command not found? Edited June 23, 2009 by kevbaz
maniac Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 Have you got all the necessary files in the fogcrypt directory? there should be Fogcrypt.exe IniReaderObj.dll and a directory called etc which contains a configuration file. As long as you've got them all, there's no reason it shouldn't work. Mike.
kevbaz Posted June 23, 2009 Author Posted June 23, 2009 yep i have all three in there but it refuses to work, just get a command not found ??? cd /opt cd fog_0.26 cd FOGCrypt fogcrypt Password bash: fogcrypt: command not found
clarky2k3 Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 yep i have all three in there but it refuses to work, just get a command not found ??? cd /opt cd fog_0.26 cd FOGCrypt fogcrypt Password bash: fogcrypt: command not found I did it in windows using command prompt.
kevbaz Posted June 23, 2009 Author Posted June 23, 2009 how are you supposed to do that when its a linux box...?
powdarrmonkey Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 how are you supposed to do that when its a linux box...? Do it on a Windows box instead?
kevbaz Posted June 23, 2009 Author Posted June 23, 2009 yeah just copied it to a usb stick and put it on my machine... why on earth is there a windows based app in a linux install? where in the wiki does it say to transfer the files to a windows machine? bah! anyway thanks for the help
clarky2k3 Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 (edited) Open up the .tar download of fog in windows using winrar and extract the FOGCrypt directory to your C:\ Drive. Then use command prompt. The AD intergration guide on the wiki could be more in-depth like. Edited June 23, 2009 by clarky2k3 1
kevbaz Posted June 23, 2009 Author Posted June 23, 2009 what needs editing in the ini? thanks for all your help btw
clarky2k3 Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 what needs editing in the ini? thanks for all your help btw It is recommended that you change the passkey for security. Have a look at the section Securing Active Directory Intergration on the wiki.
clarky2k3 Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 what needs editing in the ini? thanks for all your help btw It is recommended that you change the passkey for security. Have a look at the section Securing Active Directory Intergration on the wiki. Dont worry mate I had this bother when I first used FOG.
powdarrmonkey Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 where in the wiki does it say to transfer the files to a windows machine? bah! How many Linux programs do you know with .exe and .dll files involved??
kevbaz Posted June 23, 2009 Author Posted June 23, 2009 well considering im completly new to linux none! wiki's and user guides should be written so that any idiot (me) can follow
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