Somebody managed to cram Samba into empeg (I think that involved compiling a custom kernel with SysV IPC enabled). However, since it *is* a memory hog as you noted, the question is what do we want to do with direct file access (I believe somebody wanted to attack *0 files with one of Win ID3 utilities, for some reason...)

If somebody is desperate for mounting empeg disks remotely, perhaps a ftp filesystem could be tried?