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christianlinnell
Asked: 2009-06-15 19:28:14 +0800 CST

WINS tool missing from netsh

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I run up 'netsh' on my Windows XP box, and type

help

One of the options is wins (to change to the 'netsh wins' context).

From the netsh context I can type "wins" and I get into the wins context just fine.

Problem is, from another machine on the same domain, I can list netsh options, but wins is missing.

Why would this be?

windows-xp netsh wins

3 Answers

  1. No idea, why this Windows XP is missing the WINS tool. Windows Vista's netsh doesn't include it, but it should be available on Windows XP.

    As a workaround you could use Microsoft's

    NBLookup.exe command-line tool

    NBLookup is a command line diagnostic tool that uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) to send NetBIOS name queries to Microsoft Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) servers. NBLookup requires TCP/IP version 4 to run. WINS servers accept name resolution requests on UDP port 137.

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  2. Best Answer

    Turns out the Windows 2003 Administration Tools Pack installs the WINS component into netsh.

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c16ae515-c8f4-47ef-a1e4-a8dcbacff8e3&displaylang=en

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  3. What service pack of XP are you running?

    I just fired up an XP SP1 vm, had a look at the command list and the winsock ("wins") is missing. So that machine looks like it needs to be upgraded to SP2 at least.

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