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Rubens - 2016-04-09

Hello there,

Sorry if this has been posted/answered before but I after reading a lot I cannot find a working solution.
The scenario:
I'm in a coporate where we are using clonezilla for years and we want to automate as much as posible the backup-restore options for clonezilla live.

We have a repository for images on a network server where we can acces via samba.
The repository is structured by Manufacturer and then by model type; something like this:

/repository/HP/DC7900SFF
/repository/HP/DC8000SFF
/repository/TOSHIBA/Qosmio X70
etc etc...

I just want clonezilla to prompt for a manufacturer & model and then mount the samba share accordingly.
So far I modified the syslinux.cfg to run clonezilla live, get an IP address from a DHCP server, load locales & keymap and mount the samba share

...../initrd.img boot=live union=overlay username=user hostname=wily config quiet components noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid noeject locales=ca_ES.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=es ocs_prerun="dhclient -v eth0" ocs_prerun1="sleep 2" ocs_prerun2="mount -t cifs -o user=admin,domain=ourdomain,password=pass //10.10.x.xx/repository/ /home/partimag" ocs_prerun3="sleep2" ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no vga=788 ip= net.ifnames=0 splash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1

but as clonezilla just shows the first level of a directory we cannot navigate thru the different subfolders where the images for a specific machine are stored.

So what we need is ask user to type in the manufacturer/model and then clonezilla mount the samba share to:
//10.10.x.xx/repository/manufacturer/model --> just to clarify our needs

I don't know if it can be done by just modifying the syslinux.cfg or we need a custom script to acomplish that but I'm not very familiar on how to do it so if someone can point me to the right direction I woukld be so pleased.

Thanks so much in advance!

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- Steven Shiau - 2016-04-10
  
  For this kind of purpose, definitely you need to have a customized script for that. There are some examples in the directory /usr/share/drbl/samples/custom-ocs* you can refer to.
  
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Rubens - 2016-04-10

Also I would like to know if I can encrypt the password in the sintax to mount the samba share
command usercrypted=crypted password obtained from:
echo YOURPASSWORD | mkpasswd -s on a debian machine but it does not work and keeps me asking for password.

ie my syntax:
boot=live union=overlay username=user hostname=wily config quiet components noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid noeject locales=ca_ES.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=es ocs_prerun="dhclient -v eth0" ocs_prerun1="sleep 2" ocs_prerun2="mount -t cifs -o user=admin,domain=ourdomain,usercypted=pass //10.10.x.xx/repository/ /home/partimag" ocs_prerun3="sleep2" ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no vga=788 ip= net.ifnames=0 splash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1

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Steven Shiau - 2016-04-10

Are you sure mkpasswd can be used for encrypting the password for CIFS?

Steven

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- Rubens - 2016-04-10
  
  I dont' actually knolw, I'm just wondering a way to encrypt the assword in my sintax.
  Can you please explain a bit on how to make a custom script? Do I have to create it from the shell prompt?
  
  Thanks so much for your answer
  
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Rubens - 2016-04-13

Thanks Steven, did not find any way to crypt the password on the syslinux.cfg but anyway I wrote the script and mounts the samba share accordingly with the folder the user inputs.

Im not very familiar with bash scripting but got my answer after googling a lot and it was much simplier than I thought, I will move on automatizing my pen to backup/restore servers/machines.

Thanks for this awesome product & your gratitude!

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Steven Shiau - 2016-04-17

Acutally I have no idea how to encrypte the password for mounting the samba server. That's why I was asking.
Anyway, now you have found your solution. Cool.
Enjoy Clonezilla!

Steven

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Rubens - 2016-04-17

Nevermind Steven, found a better way to mount the samba share.
Once launching CZ it asks for a password needed to mount our cz repository.
Everything working as expected.

Enjoying the jewel for quile long now!!

Thanks so much from the sunny Barcelona

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Steven Shiau - 2016-04-18

Cool! Thanks for all the feedbacks.

Steven

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