[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition

[Colin Humphrey]

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DHCP works by a machine on the network acting as a server and giving
out IP addresses and configuration information for the other machines.
In small networks this is often integrated wth the router. When I asked
about if this was all with the same server I assumed you were trying to
get an ubuntu machine to get an IP address (and other other details)
from a DHCP server, and was wondering if that server might be the bit
that isn't working. Looking back over more of the thread I notice that
you are setting up an ubuntu server so I might have things backwards
and you want the ubuntu machine to be the DHCP server?
>>

Yes, I was not looking to set up subnetworks and give out ip addresses with 
dhcp but to have an ubuntu machine act as a server to a windows machine.  I 
could not even have gotten that far becasue dhcp configuration failed and 
was thus skipped at installation.

I wanted the installation procedure to dynamically set up the networking 
addresses but as ethernet
and dhcp both failed I was given the default loop back device, this was 
still no good as there was no ethernet detection.

So current situe is to get a machine which passes ethernet detection [good] 
and dhcp configuration[good but not essential]

Where can you get Xwindows from?  Also To run Xwindows would you have active 
desktop already installed?

Colin

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