lmhosts(5)

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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 trailing '#' char-
        acter followed by the NetBIOS name type  as  two  hexade-
        cimal 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.

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     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 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/)  and  updated for the Samba
     2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
     Samba  2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to Doc-
     Book XML 4.2 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.

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