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| 2 | .\"     Title: lmhosts | 
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| 3 | .\"    Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section] | 
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| 4 | .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.75.2 <http://docbook.sf.net/> | 
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| 5 | .\"      Date: 08/02/2011 | 
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| 6 | .\"    Manual: File Formats and Conventions | 
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| 7 | .\"    Source: Samba 3.5 | 
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| 8 | .\"  Language: English | 
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| 9 | .\" | 
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| 10 | .TH "LMHOSTS" "5" "08/02/2011" "Samba 3\&.5" "File Formats and Conventions" | 
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| 19 | .\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * | 
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| 21 | .SH "NAME" | 
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| 22 | lmhosts \- The Samba NetBIOS hosts file | 
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| 23 | .SH "SYNOPSIS" | 
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| 24 | .PP | 
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| 25 | lmhosts | 
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| 26 | is the | 
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| 27 | \fBsamba\fR(7) | 
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| 28 | NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file\&. | 
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| 29 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" | 
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| 30 | .PP | 
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| 31 | This file is part of the | 
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| 32 | \fBsamba\fR(7) | 
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| 33 | suite\&. | 
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| 34 | .PP | 
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| 35 | lmhosts | 
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| 36 | is the | 
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| 37 | \fISamba \fR | 
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| 38 | NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file\&. It is very similar to the | 
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| 39 | /etc/hosts | 
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| 40 | file format, except that the hostname component must correspond to the NetBIOS naming format\&. | 
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| 41 | .SH "FILE FORMAT" | 
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| 42 | .PP | 
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| 43 | 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: | 
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| 44 | .sp | 
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| 45 | .RS 4 | 
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| 46 | .ie n \{\ | 
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| 47 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c | 
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| 48 | .\} | 
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| 49 | .el \{\ | 
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| 50 | .sp -1 | 
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| 51 | .IP \(bu 2.3 | 
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| 52 | .\} | 
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| 53 | IP Address \- in dotted decimal format\&. | 
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| 54 | .RE | 
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| 55 | .sp | 
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| 56 | .RS 4 | 
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| 57 | .ie n \{\ | 
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| 58 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c | 
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| 59 | .\} | 
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| 60 | .el \{\ | 
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| 61 | .sp -1 | 
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| 62 | .IP \(bu 2.3 | 
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| 63 | .\} | 
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| 64 | 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\&. | 
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| 65 | .sp | 
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| 66 | 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\&. | 
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| 67 | .sp | 
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| 68 | .RE | 
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| 69 | .PP | 
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| 70 | An example follows: | 
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| 71 | .sp | 
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| 72 | .if n \{\ | 
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| 73 | .RS 4 | 
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| 74 | .\} | 
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| 75 | .nf | 
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| 76 | # | 
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| 77 | # Sample Samba lmhosts file\&. | 
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| 78 | # | 
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| 79 | 192\&.9\&.200\&.1       TESTPC | 
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| 80 | 192\&.9\&.200\&.20      NTSERVER#20 | 
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| 81 | 192\&.9\&.200\&.21      SAMBASERVER | 
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| 82 | .fi | 
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| 83 | .if n \{\ | 
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| 84 | .RE | 
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| 85 | .\} | 
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| 86 | .PP | 
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| 87 | 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\&. | 
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| 88 | .PP | 
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| 89 | 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\&. | 
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| 90 | .PP | 
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| 91 | The default location of the | 
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| 92 | lmhosts | 
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| 93 | file is in the same directory as the | 
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| 94 | \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) | 
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| 95 | file\&. | 
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| 96 | .SH "FILES" | 
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| 97 | .PP | 
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| 98 | lmhosts is loaded from the configuration directory\&. This is usually | 
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| 99 | /etc/samba | 
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| 100 | or | 
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| 101 | /usr/local/samba/lib\&. | 
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| 102 | .SH "VERSION" | 
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| 103 | .PP | 
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| 104 | This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite\&. | 
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| 105 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | 
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| 106 | .PP | 
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| 107 | \fBsmbclient\fR(1), | 
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| 108 | \fBsmb.conf\fR(5), and | 
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| 109 | \fBsmbpasswd\fR(8) | 
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| 110 | .SH "AUTHOR" | 
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| 111 | .PP | 
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| 112 | 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\&. | 
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| 113 | .PP | 
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| 114 | 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 | 
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| 115 | ftp://ftp\&.icce\&.rug\&.nl/pub/unix/) 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\&. | 
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