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   1 <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>lmhosts</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.59.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="lmhosts.5"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>lmhosts &#8212; The Samba NetBIOS hosts file</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><p><tt>lmhosts</tt> is the <a href="Samba.7.html">Samba(7)</a> NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This file is part of the <a href="Samba.7.html">Samba(7)</a> suite.</p><p><tt>lmhosts</tt> is the <span class="emphasis"><em>Samba
   2         </em></span> NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.  It
   3         is very similar to the <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> file
   4         format, except that the hostname component must correspond
   5         to the NetBIOS naming format.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>FILE FORMAT</h2><p>It is an ASCII file containing one line for NetBIOS name.
   6         The two fields on each line are separated from each other by
   7         white space. Any entry beginning with '#' is ignored. Each line
   8         in the lmhosts file contains the following information:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>IP Address - in dotted decimal format.</p></li><li><p>NetBIOS Name - This name format is a
   9                 maximum fifteen character host name, with an optional
  10                 trailing '#' character followed by the NetBIOS name type
  11                 as two hexadecimal digits.</p><p>If the trailing '#' is omitted then the given IP
  12                 address will be returned for all names that match the given
  13                 name, whatever the NetBIOS name type in the lookup.</p></li></ul></div><p>An example follows:</p><pre class="programlisting">
  14 #
  15 # Sample Samba lmhosts file.
  16 #
  17 192.9.200.1     TESTPC
  18 192.9.200.20    NTSERVER#20
  19 192.9.200.21    SAMBASERVER
  20         </pre><p>Contains three IP to NetBIOS name mappings. The first
  21         and third will be returned for any queries for the names &quot;TESTPC&quot;
  22         and &quot;SAMBASERVER&quot; respectively, whatever the type component of
  23         the NetBIOS name requested.</p><p>The second mapping will be returned only when the &quot;0x20&quot; name
  24         type for a name &quot;NTSERVER&quot; is queried. Any other name type will not
  25         be resolved.</p><p>The default location of the <tt>lmhosts</tt> file
  26         is in the same directory as the <a href="smb.conf.5.html">smb.conf(5)</a> file.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="smbclient.1.html">smbclient(1)</a>, <a href="smb.conf.5.html">smb.conf(5)</a>, and <a href="smbpasswd.8.html">smbpasswd(8)</a>
  27         </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities
  28         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
  29         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
  30         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
  31         The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
  32         excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
  33         <a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top">
  34         ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
  35         release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for
  36         Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook
  37         XML 4.2 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html>