> I'd like your opinions on above as well as on some secure, safe, sane,
We run NetBSD, samba and netatalk on a lowly 486. It provides appleshare 
volumes to which Retrospect can back up and restore easily. Although we 
don't do it (yet), this solution should work for PCs as well.
Adrian Sun's netatalk version seems to be broken on NetBSD-1.4, though, 
so beware. I could comment slightly more on that if anyone is 
interested...
Best regards,
hcb