--On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:25 PM -0700 Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote: > Found it in /var/cache/samba. It has the record I want, but nmblookup > unicast fails. nmblookup broadcast works, but that gets it from the > workstation, not the WINS server, and the point of WINS is to get rid of > the broadcast traffic. Found it! When studying the man page for nmblookup I spotted the requirement that I need to provide -R with -U to force recursion. Here's the -U option: > Do a unicast query to the specified address or host unicast address. This > option (along with the -R option) is needed to query a WINS server. Here's the entry for the -R option: > Set the recursion desired bit in the packet to do a recursive lookup. > This is used when sending a name query to a machine running a WINS server > and the user wishes to query the names in the WINS server. If this bit is > unset the normal (broadcast responding) NetBIOS processing code on a > machine is used instead. See RFC1001, RFC1002 for details. So why would you use -U without -R? Seems an odd and error-prone command design.