Wins is now considered obsolete along with netbios even by Microsoft.‎ In modern environments every thing should use DNS. XP was the last version of windows which shipped with netbios turned on by default and without netbios wins doesn't work either.

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From: Ed Agoff
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 15:55
Subject: SL 7.0 and WINS name resolution

In SL 7.0, adding "wins" to end of hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf no longer gives me the WINS name resolution I had in earlier versions, i.e. I could ping NetBIOS names from SL 6.x command line. I've added and enabled various other services in a blind effort to get it working, to no effect: nscd, samba, and samba-winbind

What's missing in SL 7.0 that was present and allowed this in SL 6.x?

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