stories of war between boy and machine
Its been a while since I’ve talked about FOG on here. The last 4 or 5 months have been busy and filled up with term-time activities as well as fixing many issues we have had. So FOG is still very much in use where I work, but there have been some changes to how we use […]
Since writing this post, these subsequent posts may help with some issues: How to remove .DS_Store and other system-created files in Samba Issues with PBIS Active Directory and Samba Introduction One of the many servers we didn’t lose was the team’s storage server, called Warehouse. In fact, it was the only remaining survivor of what we […]
Further to the previous post on this, we have had a second catastrophic outage of our storage array which, once again, has taken Studentnet with it. However, going from my previous blog post has allowed me to get this up and running fairly quickly. In the process, I found some addendums that I would make to […]
Keeping a track of computers that are all connected to a network can be a hassle, without desktop management software. Even with it, you can’t necessarily tell exactly which physical computer is connected to a given switch port. Eventually, you will come back to a switch closet, but this doesn’t necessarily help the situation at […]
I was trying to work out today why some of my snapins weren’t working for FOG. One issue I came across was to do with an MSI file. Although it deploys, the following text from fog.log seems to indicate that the MSI isn’t a valid application. 04/11/2014 14:00 FOG::SnapinClient Snapin Found: 04/11/2014 14:00 FOG::SnapinClient ID: 2458 […]
A problem that has persisted for a while is that, in order to create a base image that can be cloned to other machines, the virtual disk size has to be small enough to accommodate the smallest hard disks that might be in the labs. Even with a base image of only ~70GB (stuffed with […]
[The following post has been superceded by a more recent one, which tidies up the installation a bit and automates the LAMP installation.] For today’s (well, the last week or so) post, I’ll outline the steps needed to build a webserver that can be used by multiple users, authenticated from an active directory environment, to host […]
Further to the previous post, everything seems to have been a success. I wiped out list of hosts from the FOG database when I installed the server from scratch and so have been going around all of our PCs re-registering them all from the FOG host registration menu, using some sort of naming convention (<department><room>-<assettag>). […]
Active Directory settings in FOG 1.0+ Back in FOG Update – Part 2, I said that you could just copy and paste settings from the old FOG to the new one. Except that, as of version 1.0, the username for the account that can add machines to Active Directory should NOT contain the domain. In […]
With FOG registration tested and verified to be working, its time to move onto actually testing image uploading and downloading. If that doesn’t work, its game over. For Part 5, I will deal with how to upload an image to FOG and the process that I take to do this from scratch. Creating and uploading […]