.\"Generated by db2man.xsl. Don't modify this, modify the source. .de Sh \" Subsection .br .if t .Sp .ne 5 .PP \fB\\$1\fR .PP .. .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Ip \" List item .br .ie \\n(.$>=3 .ne \\$3 .el .ne 3 .IP "\\$1" \\$2 .. .TH "LMHOSTS" 5 "" "" "" .SH NAME lmhosts \- The Samba NetBIOS hosts file .SH "SYNOPSIS" .PP \fIlmhosts\fR is the \fBsamba\fR(7) NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file\&. .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP This file is part of the \fBsamba\fR(7) suite\&. .PP \fIlmhosts\fR is the \fBSamba \fR NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file\&. It is very similar to the \fI/etc/hosts\fR file format, except that the hostname component must correspond to the NetBIOS naming format\&. .SH "FILE FORMAT" .PP 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: .TP 3 \(bu IP Address \- in dotted decimal format\&. .TP \(bu 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\&. .LP .PP An example follows: .nf # # Sample Samba lmhosts file\&. # 192\&.9\&.200\&.1 TESTPC 192\&.9\&.200\&.20 NTSERVER#20 192\&.9\&.200\&.21 SAMBASERVER .fi .PP 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\&. .PP 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\&. .PP The default location of the \fIlmhosts\fR file is in the same directory as the \fBsmb\&.conf\fR(5) file\&. .SH "FILES" .PP lmhosts is loaded from the configuration directory\&. This is usually \fI/etc/samba\fR or \fI/usr/local/samba/lib\fR\&. .SH "VERSION" .PP This man page is correct for version 3\&.0 of the Samba suite\&. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP \fBsmbclient\fR(1), \fBsmb\&.conf\fR(5), and \fBsmbpasswd\fR(8) .SH "AUTHOR" .PP 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\&. .PP 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 atftp://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\&.