On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:31:49 +0000, [email protected] said:

> why not 
> add the 'wins' entry by default?

Well, simply put, because not everyone wants a WINS server. We manage
quite a few Linux servers that have Samba/Winbind installed on them, but
which authenticate users against an Active Directory server. There's no
need for those Linux servers to run WINS.
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