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SubjectRe: NT & SMB slowdown?
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 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).

Yes, it is reproducible.

I know of one site where the Linux SMB servers advertise as NT 4.1 because
of that reason. If you want more details I can give you a contact.


Mike




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