If the installer understood smb we could mount remote directorys using via windos (or others) shared folders. SMB mounts would be usefull for computers on a lan, ftp, http gets are more versatile. It would be easier for some people to just share a folder on there windows machine than get them to setup a ftp/http server. The installer could (optionally) automatically scan for SMB shares rather than having to specify the location of the machine. Glenn