Autostart / Stop Samba On Wifi Card Insertion, How to and where to put the script? Options

[lpetroni]

Just installed Cacko/Crow ROM (home on SD) + Cacko Kernel Update.

My WiFi Card is recognized with no problems and I was able to configure Samba over WiFi based on the guidelines posted on ZUG. The only problem is that Samba only auto starts on USB but I would like it to autostart when I insert my WiFi card and autostop when the card is removed.

So far I can only start Samba manually using samba start and stop commands.

CODE

#su
#/etc/rc.d/init.d/samba start

Complete Linux newbie here

How do I write a script and where should it be placed?

Thanks!

[bam]

you might look for network helper applet

[lpetroni]

Thanks for the reply bam.

For networkd helper applet you mean the Network Config Applet used to setup configurations (LAN/Wireless/IrDA) which is already installed with the system or a new ipk that I should install?

I did not find any option to autostart/stop Samba on Network Config Applet.

Thanks!

you might look for network helper applet

[speculatrix]

take a look in the /etc/pcmcia directory, lots of interesting scripts in there. be sure to take a backup copy before changing

[lpetroni]

take a look in the /etc/pcmcia directory, lots of interesting scripts in there. be sure to take a backup copy before changing

Thanks for reply speculatrix. I will check your suggestion.

I suppose that a script is a plain text file with some kind of extension added to its name to identify it as a script. Is it right?

Is there any way to create a applet or a icon associated with this script ?

My idea was to plug my wifi card, start samba (using this applet/icon) and then make a connection with my mac.

[speculatrix]

Thanks for reply speculatrix. I will check your suggestion.

I suppose that a script is a plain text file with some kind of extension added to its name to identify it as a script. Is it right?

Is there any way to create a applet or a icon associated with this script ?

My idea was to plug my wifi card, start samba (using this applet/icon) and then make a connection with my mac.

a script is a text file whose first line identifies the intepreter, e.g. "#!/bin/bash" or "#!/bin/perl", where the magic part is the #!, and is then set executable, so when you "ls -la" it will look like this

-rwxr-xr-x ......

it's not like DOS/Windows where the file extension is implicit in the execution

adding icons to the desktop to run scripts is a different thing altogether, but yes, it is possible. There are various discussions about it here on the forum, I don't have a link to hand.

[lpetroni]

a script is a text file whose first line identifies the intepreter, e.g. "#!/bin/bash" or "#!/bin/perl", where the magic part is the #!, and is then set executable, so when you "ls -la" it will look like this

-rwxr-xr-x ......

Speculatrix,

I created a simple text file using TextEdit:


#! /bin/bash
cd /
/etc/rc.d/init.d/samba start


Thens saved it under Documents/MyScripts/sambaup.txt
Renamed the file deleting the .txt extension.

Opened terminal and cd to Documents/MyScripts, then ls -la

It shows sambaup as

-rw-r--r-- .... so, no "x" (executable?)...

Is there any additional step to make the script executable so that I can run it in terminal and later assign it to a icon?

Sorry but I'm having a hard time with Linux

[grog]

#! /bin/bash
cd /
/etc/rc.d/init.d/samba start

Make sure there's no space in the first line:

CODE

#!/bin/bash

Why the 'cd /' line? Shouldn't be necessary.

Thens saved it under Documents/MyScripts/sambaup.txt
Renamed the file deleting the .txt extension.

Opened terminal and cd to Documents/MyScripts, then ls -la

It shows sambaup as

-rw-r--r-- .... so, no "x" (executable?)...

Is there any additional step to make the script executable so that I can run it in terminal and later assign it to a icon?

CODE

chmod 755 ~/Documents/MyScripts/sambaup.txt

Sorry but I'm having a hard time with Linux 

No need to apologize. We all started from the same place
HTH