Hello Steve,  Thanks.  It doesn't appear that the /etc/network/interfaces
file is being used.  It is there but the server starts without a
functioning network...  The interfaces file looks to be complete but just
doesn't work.  I have removed the network applet but that hasn't changed
anything...

As a matter of fact, the Ubnuntu box I'm sitting in front of right now with
a static connection has an virtually empty   /etc/network/interfaces file.
 All if has in it is:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

That's it..  I wonder where the ip, gateway and other info is stored?

Right now the clients work, so things are temporarily ok.


On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Rippl, Steve <[email protected]>wrote:

> We always remove the network manager application from the servers (apt-get
> remove network-manager) and then just set up the interface manually in
> /etc/network/interfaces.  Network manager is great on a laptop, but we've
> found it to be a liability on a server.
>
> I don't know what address range you're in, but the file should look
> something like...
>
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # The primary network interface
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 10.140.20.1
> gateway 10.140.10.1
> netmask 255.255.0.0
>
>
> Obviously you need your own IP/range in there...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Jim Christiansen <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> I'm a teacher who had been using K12LTSP for many years on two 30 client
>> labs and switched to Edubuntu and ltsp last year using only fat clients.
>>  Things have been awesome, but today while trying to install Epoptes ran
>> into a problem...  I have one wired connection on the server but had two
>> eth connections showing in the network applet.  I removed the one that was
>> indicated "never used" and now the fat clients boot and have internet but
>> the server can't access internet.
>>
>> The one wired connection that is listed is "ifupdown (eth0)" and can not
>> be edited...
>>
>> I should also say that I had students working on it last year playing
>> around with the initial install and checking out what they could do with
>> it.  The history file didn't look too scary and when my other server  that
>> drove my classroom died, I grabbed this "test" box, slid it into place and
>> just added users to it.  It has run well since power up with zero troubles
>> until today.
>>
>> I knew that I may have troubles down the road because I've been staring
>> at the other eth1 "never used" for months...
>>
>> So now I'm kind of stuck...  Help!!
>>
>>
>>
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