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<refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>lmhosts</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
        <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
        <refmiscinfo class="manual">File Formats and Conventions</refmiscinfo>
        <refmiscinfo class="version">3.2</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>


<refnamediv>
        <refname>lmhosts</refname>
        <refpurpose>The Samba NetBIOS hosts file</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
        <para><filename>lmhosts</filename> is the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.</para> 
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1>
        <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
        
        <para>This file is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>

        <para><filename>lmhosts</filename> is the <emphasis>Samba
        </emphasis> NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.  It 
        is very similar to the <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file 
        format, except that the hostname component must correspond 
        to the NetBIOS naming format.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>FILE FORMAT</title>
        <para>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:</para>

        <itemizedlist>
                <listitem><para>IP Address - in dotted decimal format.</para>
                </listitem>

                <listitem><para>NetBIOS Name - This name format is a 
                maximum fifteen character host name, with an optional 
                trailing '#' character followed by the NetBIOS name type 
                as two hexadecimal digits.</para>

                <para>If the trailing '#' 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.</para>
                </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>

        <para>An example follows:
<programlisting>
#
# Sample Samba lmhosts file.
#
192.9.200.1     TESTPC
192.9.200.20    NTSERVER#20
192.9.200.21    SAMBASERVER
</programlisting>
        </para>
        
        <para>Contains three IP to NetBIOS name mappings. The first 
        and third will be returned for any queries for the names "TESTPC" 
        and "SAMBASERVER" respectively, whatever the type component of 
        the NetBIOS name requested.</para>

        <para>The second mapping will be returned only when the "0x20" name 
        type for a name "NTSERVER" is queried. Any other name type will not 
        be resolved.</para>

        <para>The default location of the <filename>lmhosts</filename> file 
        is in the same directory as the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> file.</para>
        
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>FILES</title>

        <para>lmhosts is loaded from the configuration directory. This is 
                usually <filename>/etc/samba</filename> or <filename>/usr/local/samba/lib</filename>.
        </para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>VERSION</title>

        <para>This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>SEE ALSO</title>
        <para><citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
        </citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
        </citerefentry>, and <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbpasswd</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        </para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>AUTHOR</title>
        
        <para>The original Samba software and related utilities 
        were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
        by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar 
        to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
        
        <para>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
        <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
        ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 
        release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for 
        Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook
        XML 4.2 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>
</refsect1>

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