Thanks for the reply

Havcing already done a "service smb start" from the command line (yesterday) I now get :

[root@server ~]# service smb status
smbd (pid 8509) is running...
[root@server ~]# chkconfig smb
[root@server ~]# lspci -knn | grep Eth -A 3
00:07.0 Bridge [0680]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet [10de:03ef] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a99]
Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
Kernel modules: forcedeth
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01:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8169] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8169/8110 Family PCI Gigabit Ethernet NIC [10ec:8169]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
[root@server ~]#