SMBclient and Local Access Transfers...

maan asks: "I recently started using smbclient under Linux. I know that many test results have showed that Samba as a server gives more throughput than an NT server. However, I have found that smbclient is much slower with than Windows when accessing the localhost. Anyone knows if the Samba client needs more work?" That's rather odd. Can someone verify this behavior? Does anyone have any possible explanations?