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LMHOSTS(5)                                                                                        LMHOSTS(5)



NAME
       lmhosts - The Samba NetBIOS hosts file

SYNOPSIS
       lmhosts is the samba(7) NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.

DESCRIPTION
       This file is part of the samba(7) suite.

       lmhosts  is  the  Samba NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. It is very similar to the /etc/hosts
       file format, except that the hostname component must correspond to the NetBIOS naming format.

FILE FORMAT
       It is an ASCII file containing one line for NetBIOS name. The two fields on each line  are  separated
       from  each  other  by  white space. Any entry beginning with '#' is ignored. Each line in the lmhosts
       file contains the following information:

         IP Address - in dotted decimal format.

         NetBIOS Name - This name format is a maximum fifteen character host name, with an optional  trail-ing trailing
          ing '#' character followed by the NetBIOS name type as two hexadecimal digits.

          If the trailing '#' is omitted then the given IP address will be returned for all names that match
          the given name, whatever the NetBIOS name type in the lookup.

       An example follows:




       #
       # Sample Samba lmhosts file.
       #
       192.9.200.1    TESTPC
       192.9.200.20   NTSERVER#20
       192.9.200.21   SAMBASERVER



       Contains three IP to NetBIOS name mappings. The first and third will be returned for any queries  for
       the  names  "TESTPC"  and "SAMBASERVER" respectively, whatever the type component of the NetBIOS name
       requested.

       The second mapping will be returned only when the "0x20" name type for a name "NTSERVER" is  queried.
       Any other name type will not be resolved.

       The default location of the lmhosts file is in the same directory as the smb.conf(5) file.

FILES
       lmhosts   is   loaded   from   the   configuration   directory.   This   is   usually  /etc/samba  or
       /usr/local/samba/lib.

VERSION
       This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO
       smbclient(1), smb.conf(5), and smbpasswd(8)

AUTHOR
       The original Samba software and related utilities were created  by  Andrew  Tridgell.  Samba  is  now
       developed  by  the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is devel-oped. developed.
       oped.

       The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted  to  YODL
       format     (another     excellent     piece     of     Open    Source    software,    available    at
       ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conver-
       sion  to  DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 was done
       by Alexander Bokovoy.




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