On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:27 AM, John Wendel <jwendel10@comcast.net> wrote:

My Western Digital Media box exports a CIFS filesystem that I mount on my Fedora box, works great, faster than a locally connected USB disk. It will also mount a USB disk with ext3 formatted filesystem. I believe some people have figured out how to get root on the WD as well (but why bother). I like it a lot, it plays almost every video I have.

I have one of those (in fact I'm on my second one) and in general I'm very happy with it, but I use it the other way round, i.e. most of the content comes via DNLA from my NAS (Iomega though I wouldn't recommend it).

poc