I have a 14.04 Ubuntu Desktop installation on a MacMini running headless in my closet. When I boot the server, it will not assign itself an IP address until I login to a user session. This means anytime I reboot, the machine is not accessible via the network until I attach a monitor and login.
I am pinging the IP address of the server from my laptop on the same network and getting nothing until I login.
Am I missing something here? I feel like this is an easy/obvious fix but I am missing it.
Thanks in advance.
auto eth0
andiface eth0 inet dhcp
lines to my/etc/network/interfaces
file and rebooted, the issue still occurs.