I am using Debian Sarge and altered fstab to mount my Windows partitions:
This works and are mounted at boot. The problem I am having is that they are owned by root. I cannot view the NTFS partition, whereas I can view the FAT. When I try to view the NTFS partition , I get an error saying that I do not have the correct permission to view it. The permissions are set for the owner to view and exectue only, nothing for group and others.
I have tried to chmod win_e like:I do this in /mnt but the permissions do not change.
What I would like to do is have these mounted on boot and view the NTFS partition and be able to write to the FAT partition. Any ideas? As it is now, I have to be root to view NTFS and to write to the FAT.

Try:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs rw,users,umask=022 0 0

Thank you, that worked. I did try to find this info at other places, do you know of a source that describes the mount options, especially that umask=xxx? I have no idea what the different numbers mean.

umask is basically taking the permissions you want (from linux) and subtracting them from 777. So if you want for example rwxrw-rw- (744) you would have umask=022.

I typically use the four digit umask and probably shouldn't since I don't know what the first column permissions are for... I should probably just use 222 for read only and 000 for rwx all.

That makes sense. Thank you very much.