MacIP, encapsulates IP in DDP. It registers the types IPGATEWAY and IPADDRESS with NBP.
The best solution is Windows 2000 Advanced Server, it has the whole she-bang of Services For Macintosh. I use it as a file server for my macs, including a classic and macplus over localtalk.
Also NTFS will happily store resource forks as a separate stream of the same file. None of the messing around that netatalk does.
Yes.