Thin client configuration problems

[DB Clinton]

Thanks for the reply!

On 12/27/07, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, DB Clinton wrote:
>
> > Because I was a bit nervous with partitioning my hard drive (there's
> > WinXP running there too), I loaded the desktop version of Edubuntu
> > (7.1.0)  through Wubi (whose alpha version didn't support the server
> > edition). Configuration has been, shall we say, a challenge.
>
> If you get a chance some time you might explore the standard installer
> which allows you to resize partitions.  Of course, you're right to be
> cautious.  :-)


I was actually only one keystroke away from repartitioning but the wording
of the menu options was quite clear
enough to convince me that Ubuntu wasn't about to vaporize my Windows
partition.

> has even got to the poing of being successfully assigned an IP address.
>
> Sounds like your DHCP isn't working.  If you run the command:
>         ps aux |grep dhcp


I just ran it and it looks like dhcp is working fine.

>
>
> > I think there's something wrong with my NIC configuration. At present,
> both
> > eth0 (attached to my DSL modem) and eth1 (attached to my wired LAN) are
> > controlled by DHCP - but I've tried all kinds of other combinations to
> no
> > effect.
>
> eth1 needs to run a DHCP server, so it shouldn't use DHCP, it needs to
> have
> a static ip address.  Also, the fact that there is another DHCP server on
> that eth1's network is a cause for concern -- you shouldn't usually have
> two dhcp servers on one network.


I changed eth1 to a static address (192.168.0.254).

This may be the reason for your problems above.


Apparently it wasn't that alone. I'm still getting no ip assignments
for my client (that still
returned the message "RPL-ROM-FFC" and then "no ip address" a number of
times)
I'm not sure this is relevant, but /var/log/syslog (from bootup time)
reports

"eth1: no IPv6 routers present...can't find host npv.ubuntu.com...no
servers can be used, exiting"


> I'm trying to use Firestarter as my router but Firestarter always fails on
> > start, claiming that the eth1 connection isn't ready. During
> Firestarter's
> > setup wizard, the DHCP settings section is grayed-out.
>
> I'd be inclined to turn off Firestarter for the time you're doing this.
>
> > In addition, I haven't been able to link to the LAN computers (while
> they're
> > running Windows) through Samba (the appropriate Windows network name
> does
> > appear in smb.conf).
>
> Can you ping them by ip address?  Samba is a rather complex thing which
> can
> fail for a multitude of reasons.


I have managed in the past (at least one way, oddly enough) but right
now they're not talking at all.

> Regarding my Internet connection: on boot, Ubuntu loads what appears to be
> > the correct ip info for my DSL provider on ppp0, but nevertheless
> provides
> > only crippled access (the network connection manager shows a very
> limited
> > number of packets being up and down loaded and, practically, I can't
> > actually load anything in a browser). Running poff in terminal doesn't
> work
> > as I get a "no pppd process for provider 'ppp0'" message. pon
> dsl-provider
> > does activate a working Internet session on ppp1 using, for all intents
> and
> > purposes, the same ip info (except that my ISP provides a new dynamic ip
> > address).
>
> What is the output of the command
>         route -n
>
> in particular, is the ppp device your default route (0.0.0.0)?


There are two entries for ppp0 (216.254.132.30 / 255.255.255.255 / UH and
0.0.0.0 / 0.0.0.0 / U)
and one for eth1 (192.168.0.0 / 255.255.255.0 / U)
Thanks again, I really appreciate it.
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