I would actually suggest making use of the ip-up and ip-down scripts. That way when your ip address get assigned you can have it start Samba and you can setup ip-down to stop Samba for you cleanly if for some reason you turn off networking. Austin Morgan On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:57:46AM +0200, Prengel, Ralf wrote:

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Hi All

I have my Linux box set to configure the NIC using DHCP. Sometimes when I start my linux box the DHCP server is not running and so the NIC is configured later when / if the DHCP server is booted, no problems here. The problem I have is that if the DHCP server is not running Samba does not start, which is correct. What I need is some way of automatically starting Samba as soon as the NIC is configured. Does anyone have any ideas how to do this please.

Use a script that looks if the NIC is configuerd or not. Start it at boottime.

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