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  • 1.  Cannot connect to GhostCast Session on new GhostCast Server

    Posted Aug 16, 2012 12:08 AM

    Hi,

    I recently decommisioned a server that, among other things, had GhostCast Server 11.5 installed on it and was used by me for image creation and deployment.  On the server that has replaced it, I have installed the same Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 as before, but now, when I setup a GhostCast session, the client computer - which is booting-up using the same, old Ghost\WinPE CD that I was using before -  doesn't connect to the new GhostCast server Session.  

    From the client PC - in the DOS window, I can ping the new GhostCast server successfully - and the new GhostCast server can ping the client computer, as well. The new GhostCast server is in a different domain, however, and the client is getting a DHCP address from a DHCP server located in another domain ( the same domain that the old GhostCast server was located ).  

    I'm stumped right now on this - does anybody have any ideas or suggestions to help me through this?  Would be much appreciated!

    Thanks - Adrian



  • 2.  RE: Cannot connect to GhostCast Session on new GhostCast Server

    Posted Aug 16, 2012 10:57 AM

    Did you make a backup of the state of the GSS server before you decommissioned it?

    Here is an excerpt from a posting by one of the former Ghost developers:

     

    For any version of GSS or Ghost Enterprise from about v8.0 onwards, download the script collection from its home page which will automate the process.

    One of the scripts there is backupdb.wsf which when double-clicked by a user with administrative permissions will create a .cab archive of the state of the GSS server in a special directory under the "My Documents" folder.

    Along with it is a corresponding restore script (which the backup script will bundle in the cabinet if they are run from the same directory), restoredb.wsf - dragging and dropping the backup cabinet onto the restore script will work to unpack a restore cabinet.

    Prior to when I introduced encrypted passwords for the GSS database, copying server instances just involved copying files, but from GSS 2.0 onwards we introduced randomly-generated passwords to ensure the databases were completely secure; I developed a procedure for migrating GSS server instances posted on the Veritas official forums in 2006 (which you can probably still find in the KB archives) and in early 2007 I automated the procedure in these scripts, so it's pretty fire-and-forget.

    The recommended way of moving GSS server instances is to use the scripts; the versions on Google Code which I have linked above are more up-to-date than the ones included in the product itself.



  • 3.  RE: Cannot connect to GhostCast Session on new GhostCast Server

    Posted Aug 17, 2012 09:14 AM

    Also, check the simple things - is the firewall activated on the ghost server? If so, either disable it or add the ghostcast executable to the exception list.

    Also...
    I have noticed at one client that the Zyxel firewall blocked ghost from working - all clients connected with mac address 00.00.00.00.00.00. Also, ½ a hear later, the same client got his client disconnected while restoring, all at random times. It turned out to be a wireless access point which blocked the ICMP messages from Ghost.