Ilk - of that place or race.

That said - ignorance is bliss and there are a lot of happy people.

Zippy - Zippy the Pinhead is the main character in the comic strip of the same name, created by Bill Griffith.

Patient - a person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly"

Enough fun for today...

If you can mount the NAS with NFS, then that's a possibility for accessing the NAS, and one advantage to this is that it acts transparently like any other part of the file system, so any tools that work with the file system (like the Images application) should be able to work fine.

I've had a few complications with mounting over NFS, though - firstly, you need root access to try anything at all, and loss of the wireless connection tends to uglify things (I've had trouble unmounting when the connection is not there, for example). Also, I've had issues playing large MP3 files (>200 kbps) over NFS, e.g. occasional audible clicks in playback.

I'd love to try and get automount working so that I don't have to remount every time I want to access an NFS directory, but I haven't even experimented with it; I don't even know if the necessary tools are available.

GnomeVFS is a library that allows applications to transparently access various types of filesystems through a uniform interface. GnomeVFS modules include support for things such as WebDAV, ftp, local filesystem, gzip, bzip2, cdda, and others. GNOME VFS is currently used as one of the foundations of the Nautilus file manager

Also, since someone said it can access Windows shares, I assume the N 770 has a working SMB client. Doing a GUI for these (or porting one) like Gnomba isn't difficult and should be available soon - someone could suggest this at maemo-devs list. But it would be heaps more intuitive if it was integrated in the file browser - it could search for shares (on demand please! ) and also navigate by url, Konqueror style.