i also use fetch, but lately i havent even used ftp on the os9 mac, because of my integration with my AFP fileserver.. i can easily drop a file onto my media share and just bounce over to my win7 machine and use filezilla there.. not sure if i prefer it that way but thats just been what ive been doing without even thinking about it..
but i have used fetch the most and i also had a problem with transmit, perhaps transmit wasnt coded for 9.2.2 there must be a reason why it fails so consistantly.
i think you are confusing appletalk + appleshare..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalkAppleTalk is a proprietary suite of networking protocols developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh computers. AppleTalk included a number of features that allowed local area networks to be connected with no prior setup or the need for a centralized router or server of any sort. Connecting together AppleTalk equipped systems would automatically assign addresses, update the distributed namespace, and configure any required inter-networking routing. It was a plug-n-play system.
vs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleShareAppleShare was a product from Apple Computer which implemented various network services. Its main purpose was acting as a file server, using the AFP protocol. Other network services implemented in later versions of AppleShare included a print server using the Printer Access Protocol (PAP), web server, electronic mail server, and SMB / CIFS server to support file sharing to Microsoft Windows clients.
i have my appletalk set to 'inactive' but im also using appleshare AFP to connect to my fileserver (over TCP/IP)