Home Networking External Nas Questions with macbook

i noticed when i access my external NAS drive over my network via macbook using the connect then > SMB://ip.address files transfer very quickly and i can drag a video from the NAS folder to vlc and it plays. unlike in windows xp wont even allow me to do this. My questions is what kind of program or application does mac osx using so i can find something similar to use or settings to change in windows. since in windows it downloads teh files to my hard drive and cant really stream like the mac.thanks

well i guess i wanted to konw how apple/mac os x can access files way faster over the same network as the windows system. then again it is microsoft. ya i posted in a differnt forum. not much response.soo..ya

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