lmhosts (5)

Samba-TNG

20 Aug 2005

NAME

lmhosts - The Samba NetBIOS hosts file

SYNOPSIS

lmhosts is the Samba-TNG NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.

DESCRIPTION

This file is part of the Samba-TNG suite.

lmhosts is the Samba-TNG NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file. It is very similar to the /etc/hosts file format, except that the hostname component must correspond to the NetBIOS naming format.

FILE FORMAT

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 :

An example follows :

#
# Sample Samba lmhosts file.
#
192.9.200.1 TESTPC
192.9.200.20 NTSERVER#20
192.9.200.21 SAMBASERVER

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.

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.

The default location of the lmhosts file is in the same directory as the smb.conf file.

SEE ALSO

nmblookup(1), smbclient(1), samba(7)

AUTHOR

The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell.

Samba-TNG is now developed by the Samba-TNG Team as an independent Open Source project. Take a look at the Samba-TNG Forum for more informations.

This manual page originally was written by Karl Auer and updated by Jeremy Allison.

2005 the manpage was adapted to the current version of the Samba-TNG project.