[OT] Windows 2003 vs Knoppix

[James McDonald]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 21:16 +0800, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> > At first I thought you were kidding along with the rest of us. Since
> > you're serious, what are the statistics on either machine's NIC's?
> > What does the collision count look like? Are other systems seeing the
> > issue with this server or just this one? Might you have a bad
> > terminator or bad T? What about server usage? If it's the
> > workstation having the issue, check for spyware, worm, or other
> > malware which could flood the network with bad traffic.
> 
> Every workstation (WinXP, Linux) works perfectly with the samba server
> except this Windows 2003 Standard Server. If it's a terminator fault, it
> would affect all workstations, not just Win2003. Statistics? How could I
> collect that?
> 
> The Windows 2003 is a new isntall with SP1 applied, using Firefox as
> browser. The chance of getting hit by spyware or virus is low.
> 
> I just tried using WinXP to ping this cursed Win2003 server, the latency
> was horrible: 1000ms. This Win2003 must have some new features in its
> TCP/IP stack. Maybe this whole thing was optimized for 100Mbps network.

Windows 2003 will always use encryption or at least SMB signing if it
can. Maybe this slowness is related to that?