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2 !!!LMHOSTS
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 FILE FORMAT
7 VERSION
8 SEE ALSO
9 AUTHOR
10 ----
11 !!NAME
12
13
14 lmhosts - The Samba NetBIOS hosts file
15 !!SYNOPSIS
16
17
18 ''lmhosts'' is the SambaNetBIOS name to IP address
19 mapping file.
20 !!DESCRIPTION
21
22
23 This file is part of the Sambasuite.
24
25
26 ''lmhosts'' is the __Samba__ NetBIOS name to IP
27 address mapping file. It is very similar to the
28 ''/etc/hosts'' file format, except that the hostname
29 component must correspond to the NetBIOS naming
30 format.
31 !!FILE FORMAT
32
33
34 It is an ASCII file containing one line for NetBIOS name.
35 The two fields on each line are separated from each other by
36 white space. Any entry beginning with '#' is ignored. Each
37 line in the lmhosts file contains the following information
38 :
39
40
41 IP Address - in dotted decimal format.
42
43
44 NetBIOS Name - This name format is a maximum fifteen
45 character host name, with an optional trailing '#' character
46 followed by the NetBIOS name type as two hexadecimal
47 digits.
48
49
50 If the trailing '#' is omitted then the given IP address
51 will be returned for all names that match the given name,
52 whatever the NetBIOS name type in the lookup.
53
54
55 An example follows :
56
57
58 #
59 # Sample Samba lmhosts file.
60 #
61 192.9.200.1 TESTPC
62 192.9.200.20 NTSERVER#20
63 192.9.200.21 SAMBASERVER
64
65
66 Contains three IP to NetBIOS name mappings. The first and
67 third will be returned for any queries for the names
68
69
70 The second mapping will be returned only when the
71
72
73 The default location of the ''lmhosts'' file is in the
74 same directory as the smb.conf(5)''
75 !!VERSION
76
77
78 This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba
79 suite.
80 !!SEE ALSO
81
82
83 __smbclient(1)__
84 !!AUTHOR
85
86
87 The original Samba software and related utilities were
88 created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the
89 Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
90 Linux kernel is developed.
91
92
93 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The
94 man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
95 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
96 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/
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