This behavior occurs on boxes behind a router with
only one interface. The problem is in the firestarter
control script (/etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh) and
fixed by fixing up the $BCAST variable after testing
some other variables to make a best guess about
whether or not the machine is behind a
With the default setting of "Block broadcasts from
external network", machines on the local net (using
SAMBA) never get NetBIOS broadcasts answered for the
local network, so the other machines and even the
Linux machine itself cannot find the Linux host.
On Linux nmblookup fails to find itself. I
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