Heterogeneous file and print services

[jim@lateral.net]

Hi

I hope you can help a inexperienced netatalk admin I have recently being 
employed to perform admin duties on a Heath Robinson network containing 
30 Macs, iMacs, G3/G4 OS 9 and OS X, half a dozen 95, 98, ME machines 3 
Windows 2000 professional boxes and a variable number of Linux/BSD 
clients used as "toys".  I am trying to rationalize our services.

My 2 main problems to date are file and print services Our current 
server is Red Hat 6.2 with a 2.2.12 kernel it is horribly unstable and 
all of the above machines have problems at times getting and holding a 
connection.  I intend to replace it with Debian Potato and install the 
latest netatalk module which I hope will help.  The second problem is 
printing currently we are using ACITS but this is incompatible with 
Windows 2000.  I am thinking of replacing this with CUPS am I right in 
thinking this will solve most of my problems?

I hope this will help you to help me, any advise would be gratefully 
received even if it is RTFM here, here and here.

Thanks Jim