Thanks to all for the help. I think all of the ideas were good except that they don't happen to work with ISO files and almost everything I have is in ISO files! Here's some more info on what I've tried: It looks like VLC for iOS will be supporting smb protocol soon: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=128455&p=431357&hilit=ios+smb#p431357 Meanwhile, I thought I might be able to buy an app that would make this work. So far, it hasn't worked. I installed this on the iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filebrowser-access-files-on/id364738545?mt=8 Now I can see the ISO files on the Linux servers SAMBA share, but the next problem is that the .iso file type isn't associated with VLC, so I can't click on it to load it into VLC as if it were a local file. The FileBrowser does offer the option to stream the file to a program. If I do that, and stream to VLC, it will open an http connection -- I guess the FileBrowswer becomes a web server -- but that doesn't work. VLC can't do streaming of ISO files by http, apparently -- I tried that already using Apache on the server. So nothing is working and maybe nothing can work until VLC supports smb, which is supposed to happen within a month from now. We'll see about that! Mike