I just got a NAS built and running using FreeNAS.
http://www.freenas.org/
The goal is to keep archive copies of video files on the NAS.

Thus far, all I can do is use my Windows 2000 machine to copy files to the NAS box - even if the files are on my Knoppmyth machine! I would like to move the files directly from the Mythtv box to the NAS, as I'm sure it would be faster, but I have not been able to do it.

I did "apt-get install linneighborhood" onto the KM box. After telling linneighborhood my Windows workgroup name and username for the NAS, I was able to make a connection to the Freenas computer. But, there is no graphic file browser in Knoppmyth. So, I installed XFE. With Linneighborhood and XFE running, I keep getting "mount point /dev/.static/dev is not responding". Then I read that XFE has a bug and won't let you copy files from one computer to another. So, I'm blocked from doing a direct copy from the KM computer to the Freenas computer.

Are there other small, easy to use graphic file browsers I could get and install on the KM box?

The only other thing I can think to do, is run a Ubuntu Live cd or a Mepis Live cd in the KM box and use it's graphic file browsers to copy files from the Mythtv hard drives over to the NAS box.

Any other ideas?

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

Presumably you could mount it from the command line using samba or nfs?

Thanks for the idea. I'd like to avoid a command line method, if possible.

I played with the Mepis 6.0 and Ubuntu 6.10 live cds a little this morning. Both can mount the /myth partition with a graphic disk mount tool and both have a graphic SAMBA browser built-in so I was able to connect to my NAS SAMBA share and have access to the hard drives. I thought I was home free.

The snag came with trying to copy the files in the /myth/pretty folder (the folder containing symbolic links with human-readable show titles).
From a Windows computer, the symlinks actually have the real byte count of the video files they point to, so when you copy the symlink using Windows, you get the human-readable file name as well as the video file. From Mepis, the symlinks are just 0 byte files. I won't get the actual mpeg video files. I'll only get the nice file names and no video file.

It looks like a person can't copy the video files and automatically give them the "pretty" filenames using a Linux desktop.
Unless NFS can do that?

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner