mailto(samba@samba.org) manpage(lmhosts htmlcommand((5)))(5)(23 Oct 1998)(Samba)(SAMBA) label(NAME) manpagename(lmhosts)(The Samba NetBIOS hosts file) label(SYNOPSIS) manpagesynopsis() lmhosts is the bf(Samba) NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. label(DESCRIPTION) manpagedescription() This file is part of the bf(Samba) suite. bf(lmhosts) is the bf(Samba) NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. It is very similar to the bf(/etc/hosts) file format, except that the hostname component must correspond to the NetBIOS naming format. label(FILEFORMAT) manpagesection(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 : startit() it() bf(IP Address) - in dotted decimal format. it() bf(NetBIOS Name) - This name format is a maximum fifteen character host name, with an optional trailing tt('#') character followed by the NetBIOS name type as two hexadecimal digits. If the trailing tt('#') 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. endit() An example follows : # nl() # Sample Samba lmhosts file. nl() # nl() 192.9.200.1 TESTPC nl() 192.9.200.20 NTSERVER#20 nl() 192.9.200.21 SAMBASERVER nl() Contains three IP to NetBIOS name mappings. The first and third will be returned for any queries for the names tt("TESTPC") and tt("SAMBASERVER") respectively, whatever the type component of the NetBIOS name requested. The second mapping will be returned only when the tt("0x20") name type for a name tt("NTSERVER") is queried. Any other name type will not be resolved. The default location of the bf(lmhosts) file is in the same directory as the url(bf(smb.conf))(smb.conf.html) file. label(VERSION) manpagesection(VERSION) This man page is correct for version 2.0 of the Samba suite. label(SEEALSO) manpageseealso() url(bf(smb.conf (5)))(smb.conf.5.html#nameresolveorder), url(bf(smbclient (1)))(smbclient.1.html#minusR), url(bf(smbpasswd (8)))(smbpasswd.8.html#minusR), url(bf(samba (7)))(samba.7.html). label(AUTHOR) manpageauthor() The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell email(samba@samba.org). 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 url(bf(ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/))(ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/)) and updated for the Samba2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. email(samba@samba.org). See url(bf(samba (7)))(samba.7.html) to find out how to get a full list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports, comments etc.