NT & SMB slowdown?

Larry McVoy (lm@who.net)
Wed, 07 Jan 1998 11:29:55 +0800

Hi-
I remember seeing a .signature a while back that said something
about changing how Linux advertises its SMB volumes. I think the gist
of it was that if it advertised as Linux then the performance was bad,
but just changing it to advertise as NT 4.0 made the performance get
better.

Is this an urban legend or is it reproducible? If there is anyone that
has info on this, please get in touch with me. I'd like to measure it
myself but I'm not about install NT if there is no point (I'm not the
worldest biggest NT fan).

Thank you,

--lm