On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 15:52 -0800, Sam Peterson wrote: > Appletalk is Apple's old home networking protocol. It's not used very > much anymore. > > On 3/1/06, Chris Norman <cnorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What is appletalk and netatalk? What do they do? Netatalk is used to set up a Linux box to appear as an Apple file and print server. In my case we needed a way to copy data from OS 9 servers to a Linux box, which is backed up nightly using Bacula.