lmhosts

LMHOSTS(5)							   LMHOSTS(5)



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 ’#’ character followed by the Net-
	  BIOS name type as two hexadecimal digits.

	  If the trailing ’#’ is omitted then the given IP  address  will  be
	  returned for all names that match the given name, whatever the Net-
	  BIOS 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.

       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
       DocBook XML 4.2 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.




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