The perfect Server Ubuntu 8.04 -- got STUCK

[jlaudz]

hello All, Im pretty new to Ubuntu though been using the ubuntu desktop more than a year and mostly openoffice, so now I decided to try UBUNTU server edition 8.04. found an old PIII 866 MHz which now my host hardware. everything on board just added power supply, HD and memory.

I have read "The Perfect Server ...." ver 8.04 and follow direction except I selected all the option instead of installing it one by one.

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu8.04-lts-p3

I got stuck on step 7: /etc/init.d/networking restart resulting an Error regarding eth0.
eth0: error while getting interface flags: no such devices... failed eth0... somthing like that.

I found solution from other forum of which recommended to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules of which I did.

I pass that process (I think) but when I got into the next one /etc/hosts...
then

hostname
hostname -f

I'm not getting same value, and hostname -f actually an error: lookup fail.

pls help... I'm stuck, spend lot of hours last night looking for solution. Is this problem related to above, because I edited ...-net.rules???

thanks in advance

jlaudz@yahoo.com

[falko]

Have you tried to reboot the system?

[jlaudz]

Have you tried to reboot the system?

Hi, and thanks for the reply...
Yes, I rebooted multiple times, even tried to complete this under user with sudo instead of root account... no success.:confused:

I also can ping other PCs on my lan and other intrnet sites.

[falko]

What's in /etc/network/interfaces? Do you remember how it looked before you changed it?
Does the system have one or more than one network interfaces?

[jlaudz]

hi, I can remember exacty but it look something like this...

#PCI **something here *** (8139too)
SUBSYSTEM== ** somehere like TYPE, ATTR, MAC address...then**, NAME=="eth0"

#PCI **something here *** (e100)
SUBSYSTEM== ** somehere like TYPE, ATTR, MAC address...then**, NAME=="eth1"

I deleted first #PCI & SUBSYSTEM line and change NAME== from eth1 to eth0 on the second group to look like this:

#PCI **something here *** (e100)
SUBSYSTEM== ** somehere like TYPE, ATTR, MAC address...then**, NAME=="eth0" <--- change from eth1

[falko]

hi, I can remember exacty but it look something like this...

#PCI **something here *** (8139too)
SUBSYSTEM== ** somehere like TYPE, ATTR, MAC address...then**, NAME=="eth0"

#PCI **something here *** (e100)
SUBSYSTEM== ** somehere like TYPE, ATTR, MAC address...then**, NAME=="eth1"

I deleted first #PCI & SUBSYSTEM line and change NAME== from eth1 to eth0 on the second group to look like this:

#PCI **something here *** (e100)
SUBSYSTEM== ** somehere like TYPE, ATTR, MAC address...then**, NAME=="eth0" <--- change from eth1
That looks strange. What's in /etc/network/interfaces now?

[jlaudz]

That looks strange. What's in /etc/network/interfaces now?

Hi falko, I decided to restart installation from start, and do manual installation just like on the procedure. I sucesfully finish install, but I cant seem to access the server.

using a LAN connected PC, I can ping server1 using the IP address but I can not ping it using server1.example.com or www.example.com or simply example.com.

I can also ping any website from the server1, but I can not ping any PC connected to my LAN, even using the IP address.

I can connect to server1 using putty but with using IP address not hostname.

FYI, my other PC is a vista connected wireless, and my workgroup is "HOME" how this affects my connection? any idea how to fix this???

[falko]

If the hostnames don't exist in DNS, you can add them to your client PC's hosts file: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=432&highlight=hosts+file+windows

[jlaudz]

falko, technically i can do that to all of my PC, but I forgot to tell that theres other PC/laptop (guest) that not uder my control of which also connect to my home network.

Is theres a way to configure the server instead to accomplish this??? what are the steps?

[falko]

You'd have to set up an internal DNS server and make the client PCs use that DNS server as the primary one.