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6 .TH "LMHOSTS" "5" "28 January 2003" "" ""
9 lmhosts \- The Samba NetBIOS hosts file
12 \fIlmhosts\fR is the \fBSamba\fR(7) NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.
15 This file is part of the \fBSamba\fR(7) suite.
17 \fIlmhosts\fR is the \fBSamba
18 \fR NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. It
19 is very similar to the \fI/etc/hosts\fR file
20 format, except that the hostname component must correspond
21 to the NetBIOS naming format.
24 It is an ASCII file containing one line for NetBIOS name.
25 The two fields on each line are separated from each other by
26 white space. Any entry beginning with '#' is ignored. Each line
27 in the lmhosts file contains the following information:
30 IP Address - in dotted decimal format.
33 NetBIOS Name - This name format is a
34 maximum fifteen character host name, with an optional
35 trailing '#' character followed by the NetBIOS name type
36 as two hexadecimal digits.
38 If the trailing '#' is omitted then the given IP
39 address will be returned for all names that match the given
40 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 \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) file.
67 This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.
70 \fBsmbclient\fR(1), \fBsmb.conf\fR(5), and \fBsmbpasswd\fR(8)
73 The original Samba software and related utilities
74 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
75 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
76 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
78 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
79 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
80 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
81 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
82 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
83 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook
84 XML 4.2 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.