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LMHOSTS(5)


NAME

  lmhosts - The Samba NetBIOS hosts file


SYNOPSIS

  lmhosts is the  SambaNetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.


DESCRIPTION

  This file is part of the  Sambasuite.

  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.

  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)


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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