Windows version beyond 9x would commonly auto-negotiate a full-duplex
Ethernet connection, but really only run at half-duplex. A duplex
mismatch can really tank performance across the wire. It could often be
seen in a switch as a port that is full-duplex but with collisions, LOTS
of collisions. Maybe try forcing the NIC to half-duplex?
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Mike Manchester wrote:
> I had a windows machine that had Windows95 on it and I could copy files
> using a samba share or putty a windows ssh scp program to my Linux box.
> with now problems. But after installing Win2k on the windows95 machine.
> It talks hours to copy a 76KB size file. I can copy using scp between
> Linux boxes files much larger 300+KB in seconds. If I try to copy from
> the windows 2k machine using the samba share it's no faster and in some
> cases just times out.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this is happening. Is win2K really that
> much slower than win95 or are some settings somewhere I need to tweak?
>
> Mike M.
>
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