Format of lmhosts file

Gerald Carter cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU
Sat Jun 5 00:23:44 GMT 1999


Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
> Does the lmhosts file used by samba work exactly the same as the
> one that comes with Windows 95?  In that, I mean are all of the
> extensions supported?
> 
> Such as:
> 
> #PRE
> #INCLUDE
> #DOM

no.

IP_address               machine_name#netbios_resource_byte

for example

192.168.1.71		MYMACHINE#20

However, you can leave off the #...

> I'm just wondering because it doesn't seem to understand those
> extensions.  If it doesn't, is it in the plan to add that
> functionality at a later date?  If not why?

The #DOM is equivalent to MYMACHINE#1b i think.  Haven't 
tested it but it should work.

> Is there another easy way of getting around this 
> if it isn't supported currently?

See notes above.




Cheers,
jerry
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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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