Can navigate NTFS as root but not user
 

OK so Ive searched through the forums and it has helped me. B4 adding "unmask=0222" to my fstab file I wasnt even able to click on my NTFS partition in KDE as a user.

Now I can click on it and it will open but as a user I dont see any files. When I use my root account I can navigate the partition and play my music off of it.

Is there another line of code I need to add to the fstab line. Ive also added "user" and changed "0222" to "0000" but that doesnt change anthing.

Would it make a difference if I changed the NTFS partition to FAT32 or would I still be in the same position of trying to navigate the partition as both root and user.

Are you mounting it before you look at it as the user?

Its mounted automatically.

try using 'users' instead of 'user'

As this partition is auto-mounted at boot it also has root permission set.
disable the automount option with noauto in /etc/fstab an then you can access the drive mounting it when necessary. Also change from owner to user(s) in order you can mount/unmount that drive whenever you need.
Not sure how to do this on mandrake as it uses supermount, not available on slack.
Ask Mandrake forum for details

you'll have to put umask=0222 on /etc/fstab, the only way i could see my ntfs as user was doing this

Thanks, Im going to try all of this when I get home tonight.

Oh, and I already have unmask=0222

OK here is my unmodified fstab

/dev/hdf1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdf6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdh,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,sync,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/hde5 /mnt/win_d ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/hde3 /mnt/win_e ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/hde4 /mnt/win_f ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdf5 swap swap defaults 0 0

whenever I add anything to the win_e and win_f partitions i get this err in my system log

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde4

am I typing it right "unmask=0000" or "unmask=0222" and I added "users"

Oh and what exactly does chmod 777 ....... do

Try these....

/dev/hde3 /mnt/win_e ntfs auto,ro,umask=002 0 0
/dev/hde4 /mnt/win_f ntfs auto,ro,umask=002 0 0

I had the same issue but with this entry every user is able to use files from the ntfs partition and it is auto mounted.

Thanks SlackerJoe, this worked for me.

Glad to hear it worked for you =)