Windows Internet Name Service
MICROSOFT'S IMPLEMENTATION OF NETBIOS NAME SERVICE
Windows Internet Naming Service; WINS Server; Wins server
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) is the Microsoft implementation of NetBIOS Name Service (NBNS), a name server and service for NetBIOS computer names. Effectively, WINS is to NetBIOS names what DNS is to domain names — a central mapping of host names to network addresses.