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My friend and I were bored so we decided to take a stab at setting up a server for the first time. We had an old computer lying around so we wanted to put it to use. We installed Ubuntu 11.01 on it. There is a network card in the PCI slot but we are having trouble connecting to the internet. At first I thought maybe the network card wasn't set up right. I was able to ping my router (192.168.1.1) and get a response but when i tried pinging something like google.com and it didn't work. Also when I try to use apt-get it can't find the packages even though I know it was typed right it. Like I said we are very new, so any help would be appreciated.
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Re: First time making a server. Need some help
Posted 10 April 2012 - 05:12 PM
How are you setting the ip address of your "server"? Are you using a static ip address or are you using DHCP to get your ip address and name servers? Does your "server" have a firewall enabled?
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Posted 10 April 2012 - 05:42 PM
There is no firewall, firstly.
We are using DHCP for ip addresses.
I believe the network card is working correctly, as the network card is recognized and we can scan and find our access point(router).
We are using DHCP for ip addresses.
I believe the network card is working correctly, as the network card is recognized and we can scan and find our access point(router).
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Posted 10 April 2012 - 05:49 PM
Out of the box Ubuntu doesn't supply a firewall? I find that difficult to believe.
& you should ditch dhcp on anything that's going to require port forwarding based services to work with the rest of the world.
Using traceroute will show you exactly where the packets die.
& you should ditch dhcp on anything that's going to require port forwarding based services to work with the rest of the world.
ZOMBIE!!!, on 10 April 2012 - 06:56 PM, said:
but when i tried pinging something like google.com and it didn't work.
Using traceroute will show you exactly where the packets die.
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Posted 10 April 2012 - 07:12 PM
Thanks for your responses, guys.
We got it up and running with a static ip.
I'll look into the firewall, I think I interrupted the question wrong.
Regards.
We got it up and running with a static ip.
I'll look into the firewall, I think I interrupted the question wrong.
Regards.
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Posted 17 April 2012 - 06:34 AM
Are you using Ubuntu Server?
I've only installed the LTS release but in that version you could just select Package Tasks to choose which roles you wish for the server to perform then it sets them up for you(to working defaults anyway), it was a particularly easy installation.
I've only installed the LTS release but in that version you could just select Package Tasks to choose which roles you wish for the server to perform then it sets them up for you(to working defaults anyway), it was a particularly easy installation.
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