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6 .TH "LMHOSTS" "5" "01 October 2002" "" ""
8 lmhosts \- The Samba NetBIOS hosts file
11 \fIlmhosts\fR is the Samba NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.
14 This file is part of the Samba suite.
16 \fIlmhosts\fR is the \fBSamba
17 \fR NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. It
18 is very similar to the \fI/etc/hosts\fR file
19 format, except that the hostname component must correspond
20 to the NetBIOS naming format.
23 It is an ASCII file containing one line for NetBIOS name.
24 The two fields on each line are separated from each other by
25 white space. Any entry beginning with '#' is ignored. Each line
26 in the lmhosts file contains the following information :
29 IP Address - in dotted decimal format.
32 NetBIOS Name - This name format is a
33 maximum fifteen character host name, with an optional
34 trailing '#' character followed by the NetBIOS name type
35 as two hexadecimal digits.
37 If the trailing '#' is omitted then the given IP
38 address will be returned for all names that match the given
39 name, whatever the NetBIOS name type in the lookup.
46 # Sample Samba lmhosts file.
49 192.9.200.20 NTSERVER#20
50 192.9.200.21 SAMBASERVER
54 Contains three IP to NetBIOS name mappings. The first
55 and third will be returned for any queries for the names "TESTPC"
56 and "SAMBASERVER" respectively, whatever the type component of
57 the NetBIOS name requested.
59 The second mapping will be returned only when the "0x20" name
60 type for a name "NTSERVER" is queried. Any other name type will not
63 The default location of the \fIlmhosts\fR file
64 is in the same directory as the
68 This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
73 \fR and \fB smbpasswd(8)\fR
76 The original Samba software and related utilities
77 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
78 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
79 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
81 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
82 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
83 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
84 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
85 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
86 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter