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lmhosts

LMHOSTS(5)                                                          LMHOSTS(5)



NAME
       lmhosts - The Samba NetBIOS hosts file

SYNOPSIS
       lmhosts is the  Samba NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.

DESCRIPTION
       This file is part of the  Samba 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 con-
       tains the following information :

       o IP Address - in dotted decimal format.

       o NetBIOS Name - This name format is a maximum fifteen  character  host
         name, with an optional trailing '#' 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 Net-
         BIOS 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.


VERSION
       This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO
       smbclient(1)
        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 developed.

       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/
       <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>)  and  updated  for the Samba 2.0
       release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2  was
       done by Gerald Carter



                               19 November 2002                     LMHOSTS(5)