I use an USB stick to see pictures on our Sony. Beautiful. For movies I use a DVD or Blu-Ray player. I converted our Sony DVD player region free for 13 euro. I now watch NTSC DVDs from Amazon. Paul Moortgat On 01 Apr 2009, at 19:13, John Masters wrote: > The NAS is a Buffalo Linkstation (one of 2) which runs a cutdown > version of Debian Gnu Linux. I have never investigated what hardware > (ie hard drive) it contains as it has worked faultlessly out of the > box with both Linux and Mac clients. It comes with 2 USB ports and > built in printer support. At one time I had them hooked up to an > ethernet switch which was connected to an Air Port Express and that > worked fine except for streaming video while other parts of the > network were in use. > > The Mac Mini I admin from my iMac (24" 3.06GHz) using screen sharing. > > > On 1 Apr 2009, at 14:26, John Drake wrote: > >> >> John Masters and 69Abel, >> Wondering what OS you are running on your NAS unit, if it's acting >> just as a server and not using not a full blown version of X. >> And if you wouldn't mind what you are using for the hardware. >> Thanks. >> > > Regards, John > johnmasters at me.com