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22 lmhosts \- The Samba NetBIOS hosts file
26 \fIlmhosts\fR is the \fBSamba\fR(7) NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file\&.
31 This file is part of the \fBSamba\fR(7) suite\&.
34 \fIlmhosts\fR is the \fBSamba \fR NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file\&. It is very similar to the \fI/etc/hosts\fR file format, except that the hostname component must correspond to the NetBIOS naming format\&.
39 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:
43 IP Address - in dotted decimal format\&.
47 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\&.
50 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\&.
59 # Sample Samba lmhosts file\&.
61 192\&.9\&.200\&.1 TESTPC
62 192\&.9\&.200\&.20 NTSERVER#20
63 192\&.9\&.200\&.21 SAMBASERVER
67 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\&.
70 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\&.
73 The default location of the \fIlmhosts\fR file is in the same directory as the \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) file\&.
78 This man page is correct for version 3\&.0 of the Samba suite\&.
83 \fBsmbclient\fR(1), \fBsmb.conf\fR(5), and \fBsmbpasswd\fR(8)
88 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\&.
91 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 atftp://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 DocBook XML 4\&.2 was done by Alexander Bokovoy\&.