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<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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<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 V1.73.2"></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 class="citerefentry" 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="id283735"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This file is part of the <a class="citerefentry" 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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</em></span> NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. It
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is very similar to the <code class="filename">/etc/hosts</code> file
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format, except that the hostname component must correspond
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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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to the NetBIOS naming format.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id282728"></a><h2>FILE FORMAT</h2><p>It is an ASCII file containing one line for NetBIOS name.
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The two fields on each line are separated from each other by
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white space. Any entry beginning with '#' is ignored. Each line
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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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the NetBIOS name requested.</p><p>The second mapping will be returned only when the "0x20" name
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type for a name "NTSERVER" is queried. Any other name type will not
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be resolved.</p><p>The default location of the <code class="filename">lmhosts</code> file
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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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is in the same directory as the <a class="citerefentry" 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="id283354"></a><h2>FILES</h2><p>lmhosts is loaded from the configuration directory. This is
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usually <code class="filename">/etc/samba</code> or <code class="filename">/usr/local/samba/lib</code>.
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</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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</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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</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id283375"></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="id283385"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a class="citerefentry" href="smbclient.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbclient</span>(1)</span></a>, <a class="citerefentry" href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a>, and <a class="citerefentry" href="smbpasswd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbpasswd</span>(8)</span></a>
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</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id283419"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities
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were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
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by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
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to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
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The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
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excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
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<a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top">
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<a class="ulink" href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top">
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ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
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release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
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Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook