WINS Lookup tool
There is no tool with Windows that can perform WINS lookups in order to
test a WINS server, in contrary to DNS where nslookup can be used. On
linux there is a tool called nmblookup. On Debian it can be installed
by typing:
sudo apt-get install nmblookup
The usage is:
nmblookup -U <WINSserver> -R <nametolookup>