How do i get users to read my NTFS drive!!

therion12 · 01-23-2002, 05:23 PM

I read through a ton of man pages, and i am coming back here for a desperate attempt to fix my problem.

I have these two NTFS partitions/drives added to the fstab:

/media/windows
/media/windows_backup

Both of them work when in root mode and in the console, but no matter what chown(s)/chmods/ editing in the fstab options i do i cant get the users to READ the folder in the konquerer.

trickykid · 01-23-2002, 05:26 PM

what does your fstab file look like? how are these partitions setup ?? are they on a different hard drive ?? can they read the drives from command line and not just from konq ??

therion12 · 01-23-2002, 05:31 PM

Yeah it works from as 'root'. Here is my fstab file:

/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /media/windows_backup ntfs ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

therion12 · 01-23-2002, 05:36 PM

Quote:

Windows

A fatal exception OE has occured on your computer using the
shittiest OS ever made. The current application will be terminated.

* Press any key to terminate the current application
* Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart your computer. You will lose any unsaved data in all applications.

Press any key to continue...

Use Linux, its Better and its Free.

ROFL

trickykid · 01-23-2002, 05:41 PM

and what are your permissions on hda1 and hdb2 ?? you could try changing those if only root has access, etc.

I had nothing else to put on my homepage right now.

therion12 · 01-23-2002, 05:47 PM

I dont know.

trickykid · 01-23-2002, 06:00 PM

a " I don't know" doesn't get us very far..

therion12 · 01-23-2002, 06:16 PM

I dont know the command to check the permissions for it.

finegan · 01-23-2002, 06:20 PM

Are the permissions on the mount point set to allow users to read the mount point.

Or, to make it simple, does 'ls -l /media/windows'
list something like:

drwxr-x--x 2 root root 1024 Jun 10 2001 /media/windows

or

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 10 2001 /media/windows

If its like the first, your going to have to chmod the mount point... try 'chmod 753 /media/windows*'

Cheers,

Finegan

therion12 · 01-23-2002, 06:27 PM

its like:

dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Jan 20 20:54 windows
dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Jan 9 17:46 windows_backup

finegan · 01-23-2002, 06:31 PM

Right now you have the directories readable and executable by only root and the machine... no one else has read privledges.

chmod 753 /media/window*

should take care of the problem.

Cheers,

Finegan

therion12 · 01-23-2002, 06:34 PM

Didnt work, i still get the same thing when issueing a "ls -l" command.

finegan · 01-23-2002, 06:38 PM

Der... my mistake, if the drive is mounted, and its almost definately mounted read-only, then the mount point is also currently read-only. You'll have to unmount the drive first. If this doesn't do it then I'm really confused.

-Finegan

therion12 · 01-23-2002, 06:42 PM

Ok i chmod it while its unmounted to get:

drwxr-x-wx 2 root root 35 Jan 21 11:29 windows
drwxr-x-wx 2 root root 35 Jan 21 11:31 windows_backup

As soon as a remount it it goes back to:

dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Jan 20 20:54 windows
dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Jan 9 17:46 windows_backup

Stupid SuSE BUG!!!

finegan · 01-23-2002, 06:44 PM

Okay, this is something weirdass about a read-only mount... now I'm grumpy, gimme a minute.

Cheers,

Finegan