Uwe Brauer wrote:
I tried this already, the problem is that in Kubuntu 14.04 things are different, maybe caused my the switch to systemd.
In 10.4 and 12.04 I had in /etc a file resolv.conf which contained the IP of the DNS server and in
/etc/network/interfaces
The static IP of the machine, the gateway etc.
I missed the start of this thread so my answer may be clueless. In Jessie (and other systemd OS's?), static IP and DNS have moved to /etc/dhcpd.conf. All I did to setup this machine was to add the following to the bottom of dhcpd.conf:
interface eth0 static ip_address=192.168.0.8/24 static routers=192.168.0.1 static domain_name_servers=208.67.222.222 8.8.8.8
...I hadn't tried "service networking restart", which generates a warning. While networking was fine at this point, I ran the suggested command which had no visible affect (networking still fine).