How to login to proxmox?

[Veeh]

Yes, reinstall would be way easier if you want to modify proxmox ip.
Read below, depending of what you prefer you might not reinstall after-all.

About your network issue, you need to assign to proxmox an IP from the same network your laptop/desktop belong to.
Your computer belong to network
192.168.1.0
your ip 192.168.1.41
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (this is important, it define your network from your ip)
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1

You network ip go from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254.
As you can see default gateway and computer ip are in the range so it's ok.
To be able to reach your proxmox it need to be in the same range.
(example: 192.168.1.250, same subnet mask, default gateway is not mandatory if you don't want your proxmox to reach internet)

If you want to isolate your proxmox from your home network, which is doable.
You can assign a different ip like 192.168.100.2.
But to be able to reach it, you've to observe to the same rules.
Client OS must be in the same network.
2 way to do that.
- you have a second NIC on yout computer. You can assign a fix ip on this 2nd NIC (ex 192.168.100.10). But I would not recommend this option especially with windows, because you can't assign 2 gateway with windows it's all weird. So you'll need to have a default "internet" NIC and the second with ip address and mask only to reach your proxmox. But if you want to set up a nat or use proxmox as gateway you'll have to update your laptop network config again, so not really the best option.
- You already have virtual box installed so this is perfect. Set up an ubuntu or whatever other linux OS with Desktop, and configure the network interface of your VM on your proxmox network. (Set up the VM NIC in bridge, not NAT) And that's it.
Both VM/laptop have to be on the same physical network to be able to reach each other.

As I said at the beginning, if you want proxmox to be on your home network, you'll have to modify the ip address. Best way is to reinstall.
If you want to leave proxmox on it's own network, you don't have to reinstall. Set up a 2nd nic or VM and you'll be able to reach it.

Cheers,
Veeh

 

[topquark]

Edited: didn't notice reply above, was on next page and I was blind...

So you didn't edit hosts yet? You can always try a bit for yourself (that's part of starting to learn these things) As a general rule of thumb you can always:
1. cp "path to file" "path to file".backup (make a backup of a configuration you are about to edit) Example: "cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.backup"
2. edit the config file, and do some trying
3. if id didn't work move the restore the backup file: mv "path to file".backup "path to file"

Aside from following instructions, do you have an idea of what I'm aiming to have you do? Change ip and hostname of the proxmox server. from
192.168.100.2 to 192.168.1.50

How to adapt hosts, start off by looking at hosts (cat /etc/hosts) You should see some lines, consisting of ip addresses. If you have some idea of how it works, or at least what to change, you can do so using nano as before.

 

[eddietheanswer]

Ok so I just reinstalled, set the ip to 192.168.1.41, Netmask to 255.255.255.0, gateway is 192.168.1.1, and any attempts to access 192.168.1.41 give the same error message in Firefox I got before, what did I do should I reinstall again?

 

[Bidi]

Your PC has to be on the same network 192.168.1. you should read about networking, or plug a cable from the server directly to your pc and test this way and on your pc to network set networking ipv4 to be 192.168.1. ...

 

[Veeh]

Can you ping the host ip ?
Can you resolve it's name ?

 

[eddietheanswer]

I think I can ping it from my windows machine ok what do you think based on this output?:

C:\Users\EdNygma>ping 192.168.1.41

Pinging 192.168.1.41 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.41: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.41: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.41: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.41: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.41:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

 

[topquark]

This means it should work. Are you going to the correct address, inc https:// and port 8006? Is your browser blocking the machine due to non authenticated/signed https certificate? then maybe try different browser.

 

[eddietheanswer]

Yes I went to https://192.168.1.41:8006 and I got the same error, what settings should I look for in Firefox?

 

[Veeh]

Try with another browser to be sure it's not firefox that's doing some tricks.
Or private navigation too can help, with cookie and cache nonsense.

Could you also try to reach it with another device ? Phone maybe ?

 

[eddietheanswer]

Tried on my iPhone and got "Safari could not open the page because the server stopped responding." Just tried it on chrome still win10 and got a similar error to the one in fire what do you guys think?

 

[Veeh]

Will it be possible for you to do a fresh install ?

 

[eddietheanswer]

Sure np what should I do differently for the network settings this time?

 

[Veeh]

use this ip 192.168.1.41 when it's ask during the installation process.
With right subnet mask and gateway.

 

[tom]

Tried on my iPhone and got "Safari could not open the page because the server stopped responding." Just tried it on chrome still win10 and got a similar error to the one in fire what do you guys think?

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you need to access via https://192.168.1.41:8006

 

[eddietheanswer]

use this ip 192.168.1.41 when it's ask during the installation process.
With right subnet mask and gateway.

And the right subnet mask and gateway would be what?

 

[eddietheanswer]

Subnet should be 255.255.255.0, default gateway should be 192.168.100.1, correct?

 

[eddietheanswer]

Can someone show me how to edit /etc/hosts or should I just reinstall and misconfigure the network settings again?

 

[Veeh]

C:\WINDOWS\system32>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::20d9:db79:4393:3a2f%12
   Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.58.47
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : home
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2600:6c50:17f:9e6c:0:8b78:bf65:9961
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2600:6c50:17f:9e6c:9567:419:d111:24d4
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2600:6c50:17f:9e6c:98ba:7eba:8a77:faad
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::9567:419:d111:24d4%13
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.41
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::ae84:c9ff:fe89:c8a%13
                                       192.168.1.1

You ga

 

[Veeh]

C:\WINDOWS\system32>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::20d9:db79:4393:3a2f%12
   Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.58.47
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : home
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2600:6c50:17f:9e6c:0:8b78:bf65:9961
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2600:6c50:17f:9e6c:9567:419:d111:24d4
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2600:6c50:17f:9e6c:98ba:7eba:8a77:faad
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::9567:419:d111:24d4%13
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.41
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::ae84:c9ff:fe89:c8a%13
                                       192.168.1.1

You gave us you network config at the beginning.
Use the same mask and gateway.

I just noticed your ip is 192.168.1.41. If you assigned the same to your proxmox you wont be abble to reach it. And it's strange that you don't have network issue with your computer to.
It's basic network stuff. You can't have the same ip assigned to 2 host at the same time.

 

[eddietheanswer]

I get that, just didn’t notice at first either thanks for pointing that out, so what should I set the proxmox ip to then?