  The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) hosts a large number of Be/X-ray binaries,
however no Be/white dwarf system is known so far, although population synthesis
calculations predict that they might be more frequent than Be/neutron star
systems. XMMUJ010147.5-715550 was found as a new faint super-soft X-ray source
(SSS) with a likely Be star optical counterpart. We investigate the nature of
this system and search for further high-absorbed candidates in the SMC. We
analysed the XMM-Newton X-ray spectrum and light curve, optical photometry, and
the I-band OGLE III light curve. The X-ray spectrum is well represented by
black-body and white dwarf atmosphere models with highly model-dependent
temperature between 20 and 100 eV. The likely optical counterpart AzV 281
showed low near infrared emission during X-ray activity, followed by a
brightening in the I-band afterwards. We find further candidates for
high-absorbed SSSs with a blue star as counterpart. We discuss
XMMUJ010147.5-715550 as the first candidate for a Be/white dwarf binary system
in the SMC.
