Talk:Windows Internet Name Service

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How can one querry a Window client for its Netbios name?

On the command line type hostname (this works for XP and may work on other versions of Windows)

On the command line you can also type echo %computername% and this will tell you the hostname/NetBIOS name (using environment variable)

If you download a command line program called nblookup this is used to query WINS servers

In 2000/XP GUI, right click on My Computer and select Properties, click the Computer Name tab and where it reads Full Computer Name this is the hostname/NetBIOS name (previous versions of windows has it under My Network)

Zarief 11:11, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

chayashida: Is the name of this article correct? I just wrote up a change control form for work, and I found that WINS is listed as Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) in Add/Remove Windows Components, at least for Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.

[edit] Huh

I don't know what a WINS server does, however after reading this article I came away just as confused. It probably needs a good rewrite by someone who knows their stuff —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.73.109.153 (talk) 23:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What's it good for?

Based on the article, it sounds like WINS is only used on networks still running NETBIOS and needing the equivalent of DNS. But hardly anyone uses NETBIOS anymore. So is there any other purpose? --Gmuir 15:00, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Just because something is old does not mean it is irrelevant. In fact, I came to this page wanting to know more about WINS (from Samba). 0x6adb015 (talk) 16:47, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

. . . but it would be good to have this made clearer in the article? I came across the page by accident but was interested and confused. Was this just another attempt by MS to expand it's quasi-monopoly?? LookingGlass (talk) 19:26, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

. . . . WINS is still a critical component for many enterprise networks, I worked as a WINS Admin for 5 years to fix a network where when I started 140,000 users were using nearly 400 WINS servers, now running on just 65 dedicated servers and it does not go wrong, this number will be reduced further too. Microsoft do want it gone they dont like to develop any patches / bug fixes for it and having looked at its guts i know why. --Ivorgarcia (talk) 23:46, 6 March 2008 (UTC)