Change FOG form Dhcp to Static IP

[Damian Jones]

[SIZE=6][B][SIZE=3]linux ubuntu 12.04,12.10 [/SIZE][/B][/SIZE]

[Jaymes Driver]

I’m going to assume this is a desktop install and not the LTS install.

Click the “Dash Home” icon, in the text box at the top type “Network” and select the first icon in the list displayed as “Network”. Select Wired and click Options. Select the “IPV4 Settings” tab and change the method from Automatic to Manual, Add, and supply the server with a proper IP address and information. Click Save. Your connection will reconnect.

[Damian Jones]

It is a bit more complicated than that I am afraid…the only thing that comes up is a prompt on the server. I can log into it but that is about it. I’m thinking it will involve some sort of sudo editing of a file somewhere.

btw the video I followed to get it installed is here: [media=youtube]UqJ3GicmGG0[/media]

[Jaymes Driver]

after you log in are you presented with a graphical interface or are you presented with a command line?

[Damian Jones]

a command line.

[Jaymes Driver]

That is the server edition not the desktop edition, which is what I previously posted. Yes you will need to do it via the command line.

try this

sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

For the primary interface, which is usually eth0, you will see these lines:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

edit it to something similar to this

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1

save and exit.

sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf

On the line ‘name server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’ replace the x with the IP of your name server. (You can do ifconfig /all to find out what they are) save and exit.

You need to also remove the dhcp client for this to stick

sudo apt-get remove dhcp-client

now restart networking

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

[Damian Jones]

first part went without a hitch…Thank you.

When I bring up the resolv.conf file it is populated with two comment lines:

Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)

DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND – YOUR CHANGE WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

I’ll remove the dhcp-client and restart the networking and see what happens…

[Damian Jones]

That didn’t work…a little more searching I found:

auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static . . . dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

An edit, save, restart later it works!

Thanks for the help

[Jaymes Driver]

Awesome, glad you got it going!

[Damian Jones]

I love this actually working with the device instead of just punching buttons…reminds me of the good old days of DOS. I look forward to working with everyone.

btw…after all of that I decided to put it on a different box. I would have loved to troubleshot why it wasn’t working correctly, but a deadline was looming so I killed it and reimaged the workstations again…took far less time than the first.