[CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)

frankly3d-centos wrote:
> Reserved ip in 192.168.x.x range for CenOS 5 (Samba Server)
>
> loses samba clients due to eth0 losing it's ip.
>
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> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:61:72:AB:98  
>           inet addr:169.254.66.122  Bcast:169.254.255.255 
> Mask:255.255.0.0
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whack, 169.254.x.x is the 'auto-IP' range of self assigned IPs used if a 
system can't reach the DHCP server.     I wasn't aware Linux did this, 
I've only seen it on MS Windows.