Permission denied as root
I just finished installing Ubuntu server 9.4 for my home network and I've already hit a roadblock. :)
I'm fairly new to Linux, but I thought that this would be a good learning tool. So please bare with my stupidity. I've been following this how to http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-home-fileserver and all has gone pretty well until I tried to set the ip to a static ip (Top of page 3 on the how to) I am trying to locate the directory /etc/network/interfaces when I try to access it it tells me permission denied and when I try to CD to it it says it "Not a directory". Also, when I PWD it says I'm in /root and when I ls and li (installed limo) nothing shows up. When I ls/li /etc a list show up including "networks" but when I li/ls /etc/networks nothing shows up. I know that this might be a pretty far above my head, but I'm just doing this to learn. I don't need it to work any time soon. As always thanks for your help. I couldn't find any, but if there is a thread that solves this problem could you please post a link an delete this one. |
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also /etc/network/interfaces is a file, not a directory. Ubuntu is configured with the root user disabled. That could account for the permission denied. Use "sudo" to run commands as root. |
I was logged in as root. The first thing I did was sudo passwd root and set password, then I logged in as root.So how would I change items in the file? I need to give the server a static ip. The how to is saying I need to edit /etc/networks/interfaces, these are the cmds given.
"# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1" |
Just use one of the editors you've installed with the distribution.
emacs /etc/network/interfaces vi /etc/network/interfaces nano /etc/network/interfaces or any GUI-based text editors, like gedit /etc/network/interfaces would do. |
Ok, I'll try, but ubuntu server doesn't have gui right? Any way, thanks for your help I'll see how it works out.
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Thank you for your help, I understand what you mean now.
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