problem using wins client

[Luca Ferrari]

On Thursday, January 13, 2011 06:16:59 am Tom H's cat walking on the keyboard 
wrote:
> 
>  -R
>             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.
> 
> -U <unicast address>
>             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.

Thanks for pasting the nmblookup manpage, that I've already read....
However it turned out to be a configuration problem with the wins proxy option 
that must be set to yes in smb.conf.

Thanks,
Luca