Does the windows XP machine always have the same IP address or at least on the same subnet as the backup server when it is online? Can you possibly have the Windows XP host run a script automatically when it is online that will trigger the backup process? -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> Reply-to: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [tclug-list] script help Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:21:21 -0600 Mailer: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100423 Thunderbird/3.0.4 I need to come up with a shell script that will launch another script when a specific host is detected on the network. This is for an network backup system. The host is always off-line when the back up runs at the night and I want to fire the backup off when it comes back on-line. The script would run on the backup server as a cron job, and needs to call the backup script only once per day. The backup server is Linux. The host is Windows XP. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110103/85c7a23a/attachment.htm