Thank you for responding,

Right now what I do is run the 'network card configuration' and all the correct values come up already in the textboxes where it asks me for the ip addresses. For samba I open a terminal session and I type in /etc/init.d/samba start and that does what I need. So what would I need to do to make automatically come up?

Is it normal for this to happen, or does everyone else just find a way to deal with it?

Stephen