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{ Daily Archives } Monday, December 2009

Configuring Ubuntu for a static IP address

The next thing we need to do is to set the network with your static IP addresses. First, edit the /etc/network/interfaces to include the following. # /etc/network/interfaces auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx This assumes you want the ethernet card on eth0 configured.  After this, we need to configure [...]

Using SSH on Mac to access Ubuntu server 9.10

First, make sure you can SSH to your server. If you need to install ssh on the Ubuntu server, use: sudo apt-get install ssh mkdir ~/.ssh touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys chmod 700 ~/.ssh If you are wondering what the touch does, it just creates an empty file if it doesn’t exist.  That way i [...]