broadcasts not working? (samba related)

[Fred Bulback <fred@linuxchips.com>]

Hi all,

I'm working on a real stumper (at least for me). I've set Samba up and
I'm unable to browse anything without specifying the exact IP of what I
want to browse.

This is supposed to broadcast a message to anything that's listening on
the subnet:

> nmblookup -B 192.168.255.255 fredhp
querying fredhp on 192.168.255.255
name_query failed to find name fredhp

(my mask is 255.255.0.0)

If I use the exact IP, it works:

> nmblookup -B 192.168.1.50 fredhp
querying fredhp on 192.168.1.50
192.168.1.50 fredhp<00>

The version of Samba is 2.2.2, and it's OpenBSD 3.0.

Has anyone encountered this sort of behavior before?

Thanks,

Fred