Several Different kernel related (?) problems

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 07:23:23PM +1000, Philip Anderson wrote:
> I also had to boot our server back to the previous kernel, as the latest 
> FC2 kernel (2.6.7-1.494.2.2) made samba unusable.  Connections could be 
> made, but throughput was so low and unreliable that many applications 
> were timing out, causing database corruption in our Library software.  
> I'm currently using 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 without any problems.  The problems 
> were with a variety of Win XP, 98 clients.

Sounds like you've got a buggy firewall/proxy box between you and the clients
that also cannot handle window scaling. If you turn window scaling off as in
the previous discussion does it help ?