Resolving NETBIOS names from Linux

There's a Windows machine called SUSAN on my network. From a Windows VM on my Linux box I can simply: C:\>ping susan I've followed this guide (and looked at several other similar ones) for resolving NETBIOS names from my Linux box itself. I installed samba and samba-winbind. I edited this hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf from: hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname to hosts: files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname Apparently I should now be able to ping SUSAN by her name (I can already ping her by her IP). But I'm getting: user@localhost:~ $ ping susan ping: unknown host susan