I've had a little more success thanks to your tips. I can mount the share from a command line and access the folders within. I don't anticipate needing to copy files to or from it but prefer the 'accessability' of media files using file manager.

My main reason for wanting to access the remote storage is to be able to play media files on n900 which are stored on the drive. I understand that there is a way of opening files from a command line but that this requires quite a long and complicated string.

any ideas about what I should enter into the fields in WM so that I can mount using this instead of command line? I've tried many combinations of folder names, username and password.

TIA.

cb

edit
I had another thought - would firewall settings on router make any difference? Would firewall settings allow mounting from command line but not from WM? Just a thought....