great to hear you got t sorted Bozo
about midnight commander, nice feature. But dit you ever looked at WinSCP, that a program running under windows and accesses the NAS via SSH and has similar features like commander. I use it all the time, its very convenient.
One remark about optware, replacing libraries or upgrading packages can make some features not working properly anymore as some binaries are dependent on libs I stored that. That is because of the compiler structure I use, the tool chain has an /opt library as a result some binaries need specific libraries present in that folder. If you upgrade such a specific library then the binaries dependent on it must be recompiled again. Its always a good idea to make a backup of that folder if you make any change, so you can restore a working situation