> I have compiled and installed Samba under NetBSD 1.0 and 1.1 and it works   
> well.
> 
> I have a few questions:
> 
> 1) Why is samba so much more slow than it's counter parts on NT, wfwg   
> 3.11, win95, OS/2, etc.?
You don't really provide much information, so as to be able to "guess" anything.
It could be that you are comparing Apples and Oranges.
Samba is using TCP/IP, whereas Nt etc. probably are running NetBEUI. If thats
the explanation for any speed differences I don't know.

> 2) Can Samba be shoe-horned into a mount?  I.e. mount_netman

On ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/networking/smbmount-1.3.tar.gz 
and
   ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/networking/smbmount.README
Is it portable ? Don't know. The author wrote it on HP-UX 9.01, so maybe not as
bad as if it were written on Linux (NO smiley intended).

regards
kim