| 1 | <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>lmhosts</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.71.0"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="lmhosts.5"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>lmhosts — The Samba NetBIOS hosts file</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><p><code class="filename">lmhosts</code> is the <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259295"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This file is part of the <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p><code class="filename">lmhosts</code> is the <span class="emphasis"><em>Samba |
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| 2 | </em></span> NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. It |
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| 3 | is very similar to the <code class="filename">/etc/hosts</code> file |
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| 4 | format, except that the hostname component must correspond |
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| 5 | to the NetBIOS naming format.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259546"></a><h2>FILE FORMAT</h2><p>It is an ASCII file containing one line for NetBIOS name. |
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| 6 | The two fields on each line are separated from each other by |
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| 7 | white space. Any entry beginning with '#' is ignored. Each line |
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| 8 | in the lmhosts file contains the following information:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>IP Address - in dotted decimal format.</p></li><li><p>NetBIOS Name - This name format is a |
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| 9 | maximum fifteen character host name, with an optional |
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| 10 | trailing '#' character followed by the NetBIOS name type |
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| 11 | as two hexadecimal digits.</p><p>If the trailing '#' is omitted then the given IP |
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| 12 | address will be returned for all names that match the given |
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| 13 | name, whatever the NetBIOS name type in the lookup.</p></li></ul></div><p>An example follows: |
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| 14 | </p><pre class="programlisting"> |
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| 15 | # |
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| 16 | # Sample Samba lmhosts file. |
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| 17 | # |
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| 18 | 192.9.200.1 TESTPC |
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| 19 | 192.9.200.20 NTSERVER#20 |
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| 20 | 192.9.200.21 SAMBASERVER |
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| 21 | </pre><p> |
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| 22 | </p><p>Contains three IP to NetBIOS name mappings. The first |
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| 23 | and third will be returned for any queries for the names "TESTPC" |
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| 24 | and "SAMBASERVER" respectively, whatever the type component of |
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| 25 | the NetBIOS name requested.</p><p>The second mapping will be returned only when the "0x20" name |
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| 26 | type for a name "NTSERVER" is queried. Any other name type will not |
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| 27 | be resolved.</p><p>The default location of the <code class="filename">lmhosts</code> file |
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| 28 | is in the same directory as the <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a> file.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259366"></a><h2>FILES</h2><p>lmhosts is loaded from the configuration directory. This is |
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| 29 | usually <code class="filename">/etc/samba</code> or <code class="filename">/usr/local/samba/lib</code>. |
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| 30 | </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259388"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259398"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="smbclient.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbclient</span>(1)</span></a>, <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a>, and <a href="smbpasswd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbpasswd</span>(8)</span></a> |
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| 31 | </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259432"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities |
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| 32 | were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed |
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| 33 | by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar |
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| 34 | to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. |
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| 35 | The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another |
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| 36 | excellent piece of Open Source software, available at |
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| 37 | <a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top"> |
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| 38 | ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 |
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| 39 | release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for |
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| 40 | Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook |
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| 41 | XML 4.2 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html> |
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