Cannot ping to tinycore by hostname

[Juanito]

I'm not at home at the moment to double-check, but I enabled netbios over tcp on the windows machines on the network - they might be able to ping each other, but they cannot ping the linux (tc) machine running samba by hostname and it cannot ping them..

[Juanito]

Why not just run dnsmasq?

I've always wondered how to set it up to resolve local hostnames and nothing else (i.e. let the router do everything else)?

I used to have a hacked router that used dnsmasq to resolve local hostnames, but I never found out how it was configured.