Ok,

With the most basic explanation/terminology and in the most basic way possible how can I achieve the following:

I have a home network with about 5 computers all connected running windows shares. I can access all machines in the house via typing \\<computer name> into my Windows Explorer and access with ease, select a video and play on my local machine.

How do I do this with the N900 as the local machine? I want it to access the network windows share, browse the directory structure and play a video on the N900 streaming from the server?

This is one of my main desires with this device, any help would be greatly appreciated.

JL

this is pretty easy tool for it:
http://maemo.org/packages/view/wizard-mounter/

please remember that software in testing hasn't been tested well enough and in devel probably not at all so those might cause some trouble...