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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 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.

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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