1LMHOSTS(5)                                                          LMHOSTS(5)
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NAME

6       lmhosts - The Samba NetBIOS hosts file
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SYNOPSIS

9       lmhosts is the samba(7) NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.
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DESCRIPTION

12       This file is part of the samba(7) suite.
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14       lmhosts  is  the  Samba  NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. It is
15       very similar to the /etc/hosts file format, except  that  the  hostname
16       component must correspond to the NetBIOS naming format.
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FILE FORMAT

19       It  is  an  ASCII  file  containing  one line for NetBIOS name. The two
20       fields on each line are separated from each other by white  space.  Any
21       entry beginning with '#' is ignored. Each line in the lmhosts file con‐
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24       ·  IP Address - in dotted decimal format.
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26       ·  NetBIOS Name - This name format is a maximum fifteen character  host
27          name,  with  an optional trailing '#' character followed by the Net‐
28          BIOS name type as two hexadecimal digits.
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30          If the trailing '#' is omitted then the given  IP  address  will  be
31          returned  for all names that match the given name, whatever the Net‐
32          BIOS name type in the lookup.
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34       An example follows:
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40       # Sample Samba lmhosts file.
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42       192.9.200.1    TESTPC
43       192.9.200.20   NTSERVER#20
44       192.9.200.21   SAMBASERVER
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48       Contains three IP to NetBIOS name mappings. The first and third will be
49       returned  for  any  queries  for  the  names "TESTPC" and "SAMBASERVER"
50       respectively,  whatever  the  type  component  of  the   NetBIOS   name
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53       The  second mapping will be returned only when the "0x20" name type for
54       a name "NTSERVER" is queried. Any other name type will not be resolved.
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56       The default location of the lmhosts file is in the  same  directory  as
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60       lmhosts  is  loaded  from  the configuration directory. This is usually
61       /etc/samba or /usr/local/samba/lib.
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VERSION

64       This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.
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SEE ALSO

67       smbclient(1), smb.conf(5), and smbpasswd(8)
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AUTHOR

70       The original Samba software  and  related  utilities  were  created  by
71       Andrew  Tridgell.  Samba  is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
72       Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
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74       The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.  The  man  page
75       sources  were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
76       Source  software,  available  at  ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/)  and
77       updated  for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
78       DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to Doc‐
79       Book XML 4.2 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.
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