Hey all,

So I've been trying to find a good use for my N900 ever since it stopped recognising SIM cards, and I think I might have stumbled across it.

Seagate make a product last year called the GoFlex Satellite, which is a portable, battery-powered, WiFi-broadcasting 500GB HDD. This is awesome, because it means I can finally start taking my many, many GBs of music with me wherever I go. However, the GFS has a fair few restrictions placed on it, chiefly that any access from the N900 would have to be through the poorly-designed GFS web portal. Far from ideal.

Of course, like most network-enabled hard drives it's running Linux underneath, and like most things running Linux someone has hacked it. Case in point.

There's a couple more facets to this for me (I need to buy a multipoint-enabled pair of BT headphones so I can still get incoming calls off my N9) but it seems do-able. I guess I just wanted to check if:

1 - Anyone else had tried doing this, and run into any implementation issues
2 - The N900's Rockbox port is able to access network storage (I'm assuming it's hidden somewhere in the filesystem, but I'm not smart enough to know where)
3 - There's any limitations within the network storage component of the N900's default media player app? Can't remember exactly.

Any thoughts on this would be welcomed, thanks guys.

I've purchased a Patriot Gauntlet Node (WiFi-enabled, battery-powered 2.5" HDD enclosure) and a 1TB HDD to fit it, so the game's on. Will report back in this thread with level of success.

Replying to say that while the N900 definitely can stream via CIFS, the speed is too slow to allow for higher-quality music like FLAC (even tried running the command through Terminal with -direct, no dice). Lower-bitrate music (think MP3 v2) would probably be fine, but I haven't tested so no promises.

Shame; with Rockbox it would have made the N900 a great little DAP. As it stands I'm using CM9 on my HP Touchpad to run Rockbox and it has no issue streaming from the Node.

http://i.imgur.com/QpDe3.jpg

I would try the N9 out but lack of gapless playback makes the exercise seem pretty pointless. Unless a new app's launched and I missed it?