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<refentry id="lmhosts.5">
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<refentrytitle>lmhosts</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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<refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
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<refmiscinfo class="manual">File Formats and Conventions</refmiscinfo>
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<refmiscinfo class="version">3.4</refmiscinfo>
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<refname>lmhosts</refname>
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<refpurpose>The Samba NetBIOS hosts file</refpurpose>
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<para><filename>lmhosts</filename> is the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.</para>
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<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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<para>This file is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
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<para><filename>lmhosts</filename> is the <emphasis>Samba
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</emphasis> NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. It
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is very similar to the <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file
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format, except that the hostname component must correspond
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to the NetBIOS naming format.</para>
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<title>FILE FORMAT</title>
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<para>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:</para>
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<listitem><para>IP Address - in dotted decimal format.</para>
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<listitem><para>NetBIOS Name - This name format is a
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maximum fifteen character host name, with an optional
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trailing '#' character followed by the NetBIOS name type
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as two hexadecimal digits.</para>
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<para>If the trailing '#' is omitted then the given IP
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address will be returned for all names that match the given
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name, whatever the NetBIOS name type in the lookup.</para>
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<para>An example follows:
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# Sample Samba lmhosts file.
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192.9.200.20 NTSERVER#20
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192.9.200.21 SAMBASERVER
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<para>Contains three IP to NetBIOS name mappings. The first
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and third will be returned for any queries for the names "TESTPC"
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and "SAMBASERVER" respectively, whatever the type component of
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the NetBIOS name requested.</para>
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<para>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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<para>The default location of the <filename>lmhosts</filename> file
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is in the same directory as the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> file.</para>
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<para>lmhosts is loaded from the configuration directory. This is
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usually <filename>/etc/samba</filename> or <filename>/usr/local/samba/lib</filename>.
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<title>VERSION</title>
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<para>This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.</para>
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<title>SEE ALSO</title>
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<refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry>, and <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbpasswd</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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<title>AUTHOR</title>
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<para>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.</para>
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<para>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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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
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ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) 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
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XML 4.2 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>