Hi Andy yeah I have been rebooting my router constantly trying to get it to assign it an IP address. I rebooted everything at one point and this did seem to remedy the situation so i thought it would be a good idea to go into my router and tell it to pin an IP address to the mac address of the NIC o...

I figured out what was the problem was. Apparently Ubuntu can only see my NIC some of time and when it does it can only connect outside my network whenever it feels like it. Im not sure what is causing the problem, as I am not changing any settings within my server itself, it just seems to lose conn...

Hi there, I am currently new to this ubuntu so please bear with me. I followed your tut on creating a media server and everything was going fine until i reached the VNC part. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and when I run tight VNC Viewer and try to connect to my server I just get Connection Failed! M...