Sick and tired of network shares not working

yes, you can run them alongside each other

but NFS is quite a bit faster

I ran a few speed test which you can see here

http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Streaming-Discussions/HD-files-are-buffering-what-can-I-do/td-p/519534/page/2

the difference between NFS and SMB is night and day