problem using wins client

[Tom H]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it> wrote:
> 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.

I was just pointing out that, AFAICT, you couldn't use -U without -R.

I wasn't troubleshooting anything else because you hadn't posted
enough information...