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
jerry at eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw
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