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yes, im aware that mounting the files directly would be no use; I was hopnig for a translation layer that emulated the playlist file structure over smb/nfs

I once lashed-up sort-of about half-a-one using Samba's plug-in system. It was never near finished, though, and certainly wasn't reliable. It was just as a proof-of-concept in case we ever wanted to offer SMB access in future networked products. However, we've only done one future networked product so far -- Karma -- and, as it runs Ecos not Linux, you can't use Samba plug-ins on it. I suspect that if someone did write such a thing, it'd be very popular. (Hurdle #1: stock Empeg kernels are compiled without some vital component -- SYSVIPC maybe? -- without which Samba won't work, but I think Hijack kernels do have it.)

Peter