| 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
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| 3 | <refentry id="lmhosts.5">
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| 4 |
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| 5 | <refmeta>
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| 6 | <refentrytitle>lmhosts</refentrytitle>
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| 7 | <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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| 8 | <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
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| 9 | <refmiscinfo class="manual">File Formats and Conventions</refmiscinfo>
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| 10 | <refmiscinfo class="version">3.6</refmiscinfo>
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| 11 | </refmeta>
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| 12 |
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <refnamediv>
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| 15 | <refname>lmhosts</refname>
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| 16 | <refpurpose>The Samba NetBIOS hosts file</refpurpose>
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| 17 | </refnamediv>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <refsynopsisdiv>
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| 20 | <para><filename>lmhosts</filename> is the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
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| 21 | <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.</para>
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| 22 | </refsynopsisdiv>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <refsect1>
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| 25 | <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <para>This file is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
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| 28 | <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para><filename>lmhosts</filename> is the <emphasis>Samba
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| 31 | </emphasis> NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. It
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| 32 | is very similar to the <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file
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| 33 | format, except that the hostname component must correspond
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| 34 | to the NetBIOS naming format.</para>
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| 35 | </refsect1>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <refsect1>
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| 38 | <title>FILE FORMAT</title>
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| 39 | <para>It is an ASCII file containing one line for NetBIOS name.
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| 40 | The two fields on each line are separated from each other by
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| 41 | white space. Any entry beginning with '#' is ignored. Each line
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| 42 | in the lmhosts file contains the following information:</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <itemizedlist>
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| 45 | <listitem><para>IP Address - in dotted decimal format.</para>
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| 46 | </listitem>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <listitem><para>NetBIOS Name - This name format is a
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| 49 | maximum fifteen character host name, with an optional
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| 50 | trailing '#' character followed by the NetBIOS name type
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| 51 | as two hexadecimal digits.</para>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <para>If the trailing '#' is omitted then the given IP
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| 54 | address will be returned for all names that match the given
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| 55 | name, whatever the NetBIOS name type in the lookup.</para>
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| 56 | </listitem>
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| 57 | </itemizedlist>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <para>An example follows:
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| 60 | <programlisting>
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| 61 | #
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| 62 | # Sample Samba lmhosts file.
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| 63 | #
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| 64 | 192.9.200.1 TESTPC
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| 65 | 192.9.200.20 NTSERVER#20
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| 66 | 192.9.200.21 SAMBASERVER
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| 67 | </programlisting>
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| 68 | </para>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <para>Contains three IP to NetBIOS name mappings. The first
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| 71 | and third will be returned for any queries for the names "TESTPC"
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| 72 | and "SAMBASERVER" respectively, whatever the type component of
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| 73 | the NetBIOS name requested.</para>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <para>The second mapping will be returned only when the "0x20" name
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| 76 | type for a name "NTSERVER" is queried. Any other name type will not
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| 77 | be resolved.</para>
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <para>The default location of the <filename>lmhosts</filename> file
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| 80 | is in the same directory as the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
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| 81 | <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> file.</para>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | </refsect1>
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| 84 |
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| 85 | <refsect1>
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| 86 | <title>FILES</title>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <para>lmhosts is loaded from the configuration directory. This is
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| 89 | usually <filename>/etc/samba</filename> or <filename>/usr/local/samba/lib</filename>.
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| 90 | </para>
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| 91 | </refsect1>
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| 92 |
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| 93 | <refsect1>
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| 94 | <title>VERSION</title>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <para>This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.</para>
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| 97 | </refsect1>
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| 98 |
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| 99 | <refsect1>
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| 100 | <title>SEE ALSO</title>
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| 101 | <para><citerefentry>
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| 102 | <refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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| 103 | </citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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| 104 | </citerefentry>, and <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbpasswd</refentrytitle>
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| 105 | <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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| 106 | </para>
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| 107 | </refsect1>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <refsect1>
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| 110 | <title>AUTHOR</title>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
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| 113 | were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
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| 114 | by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
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| 115 | to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
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| 116 |
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| 117 | <para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
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| 118 | The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
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| 119 | excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
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| 120 | <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
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| 121 | ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
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| 122 | release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
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| 123 | Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook
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| 124 | XML 4.2 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>
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| 125 | </refsect1>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | </refentry>
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