Greeting all! I just finally mountedmy NTFS parition/drive on my fedora box, but it appears as LOCKED, how do I unlock it to copy files off it?

Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure what you mean by locked. What are the permissions:
ls -l /path/to/mount

Do you get any specific errors?

Well, what I did was install the rpm for ntfs support, then followed the instructions.

When I attempt to access the mount in KDE,it is a picture of the folder with a lock on it and it says I don't have the permissions.

I su m,yself, still won't let me in.

You still haven't told us what the permssions are. Try using a umask of "0222" when you mount the partition.

My sample /etc/fstab for you to check on .

/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs auto,ro,users,umask=0222 0 0

Ok, thanks for the command and help, the is the end result:

[root@dhcp-140-163 pleiades]# ls -l /mnt/windows
total 0
-r-------- 1 root root 5527220 Jul 7 2003 01-the_white_stripes-seven_nation_army-esc.mp3
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Sep 27 2002 70's
dr-x------ 1 root root 16384 Sep 27 2002 80's
dr-x------ 1 root root 65536 Jul 15 2003 Alternative
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Sep 27 2002 Ambient
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Sep 27 2002 Ambient Chant
dr-x------ 1 root root 118784 Jul 15 2003 Assorted
-r-------- 1 root root 3006 Jun 20 2003 BANGIN.nra
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Sep 27 2002 Barry White
-r-------- 1 root root 12138569 Apr 29 17:28 Bill.1.wav
-r-------- 1 root root 2127869 Apr 29 17:28 Bill.2.wav
dr-x------ 1 root root 16384 Sep 27 2002 Classical
dr-x------ 1 root root 57344 Jul 15 2003 Classic Rock
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Sep 27 2002 Comedy
dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Sep 27 2002 Danny Elfman
dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Apr 30 16:30 D Photos
dr-x------ 1 root root 0 Sep 27 2002 Easy Listening
dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Sep 27 2002 enya
dr-x------ 1 root root 12288 May 7 12:41 F DRIVE
dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Sep 27 2002 Goa
dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Sep 27 2002 Hard Rock
dr-x------ 1 root root 45056 Sep 27 2002 Hindi
dr-x------ 1 root root 0 Sep 27 2002 Jazz
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Mar 26 2003 KaZaA
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Sep 27 2002 Misc
dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Sep 27 2002 Mob Hits
dr-x------ 1 root root 0 Apr 29 19:56 Motorola_Wireless
dr-x------ 1 root root 0 Mar 14 19:09 Movies
dr-x------ 1 root root 0 Jul 17 2003 msdownld.tmp
dr-x------ 1 root root 12288 Sep 27 2002 New Age
dr-x------ 1 root root 36864 Sep 27 2002 Pop - Top40
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Sep 27 2002 Punk
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Apr 30 20:05 RECYCLER
dr-x------ 1 root root 12288 Mar 23 17:42 Scrubs
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Sep 27 2002 South Park
dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Apr 30 16:24 System Volume Information
dr-x------ 1 root root 0 Sep 27 2002 temp
dr-x------ 1 root root 53248 Apr 5 2003 To be sorted
dr-x------ 1 root root 12288 Sep 27 2002 TV Themes
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Sep 27 2002 Wedding
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Sep 27 2002 Work Stream
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Mar 28 2003 WUTemp
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Apr 25 16:58 z4-5 KAzaa Lite
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Oct 18 2003 z-even newer
dr-x------ 1 root root 0 Jun 19 2003 z-FTP Downloads
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Sep 27 2002 z-Incoming
dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Oct 17 2003 z-Newer CD

From the output, only root is able to read from the partition. Do ls -la /mnt and let us know the permission of /mnt/windows .. you may need to chmod 777 it (does it matter? will the mount do this automatically? .. no idea .. may be somebody can highlite on this).

Just to be sure, you can't *write* to an NTFS partition, you can only read it, too. If that's what you mean by "locked", well, uh, then, ask MS to release the NTFS specs, so a true r/w interface can be written....

End Result:

[root@dhcp-140-163 pleiades]# ls -la /mnt
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 7 22:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 May 7 21:52 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1990 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1990 cdrom1
dr-x------ 1 root root 16384 May 5 12:33 windows

Really all I want to do is copy the files to the linux drive, is this possible?

Like we said in posts 4 & 5 just mount that partition with a umask of "0222"