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NAME
lmhosts - The Samba NetBIOS hosts file
SYNOPSIS
lmhosts is the Samba NetBIOS name to IP address mapping
file.
DESCRIPTION
This file is part of the Samba 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
:
o IP Address - in dotted decimal format.
o 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.
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.
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.
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The default location of the lmhosts file is in the same
directory as the smb.conf(5)> file.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
smbclient(1)
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/
<URL: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
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