I'm planning to buy an external NAS box to be used with a 3,5'' HD. The NAS supports SMB and FTP.

I know I can share those files through smbfs packages, but I'd like to know wheter or not once those files are accessed if there is any hope to play videos from the remote share. I remember I was able to do this when NFS was enabled, but I'd like to do it without having to keep a whole computer on (so that I thought about that NAS box)

Thanks in advance for your responses