[kubuntu] caot make settings in coection editor stick

Just installed 16.04 into a zotac nano and am having trouble with the coection editor. Install went great, no trouble. Now that that is done, I need to make the Eth0 IP address a static and make the unit be a server. The coection editor won't behave. Everytime I try, it pops up a message about it failing and won't coect again. It won't even behave when I try to set it back to auto. Had to go through every setting and click remove multiple times. Also, the etheet port wants to glom-on to the windows box on the network switch and pretend it's gateway is 169.254.0.0. Even when I tu off the windowsbox this computer still wants to pick that address. It's only after I tu off the windowsbox and bootup twice does it start coecting.

There is something very wrong with the coection editor or the network manager with 16.04. This is the 3rd computer I've tried it on, all 3 have problems with manual settings.