lmhosts - The Samba NetBIOS hosts file
lmhosts is the samba(7) NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.
File Formats and Conventions LMHOSTS(5)
NAME
lmhosts - The Samba NetBIOS hosts file
SYNOPSIS
lmhosts is the samba(7) NetBIOS name to IP address mapping file.
DESCRIPTION
This file is part of the samba(7) suite.
lmhosts is the Samba 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:
o IP Address - in dotted decimal format.
o 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.
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.
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(5) file.
FILES
lmhosts is loaded from the configuration directory. This is usually
/etc/samba or /usr/local/samba/lib.
VERSION
This man page is part of version 4.13.17 of the Samba suite.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+-----------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Availability | service/network/samba |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+-----------------------+
SEE ALSO
smbclient(1), smb.conf(5), and smbpasswd(8)
AUTHOR
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.
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.13.17.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://www.samba.org/.
Samba 4.13.17 06/28/2022 LMHOSTS(5)