ok I finally created a user for myself instead of running as root and now I cant access my windows drive I dont see anything about a device user in kuser and I attempted to right click and change permissions while root but it said that no change was possible..so how do I give myself access??

Good afternoon

It's normally taken care of when the drive is mounted. The file that will need to be changed is /etc/fstab This is the file that defines where and how everything is mounted. In the options section for the device in question you'll want to add the option "users" to the list of options you have given. In addtion you may also want to give the option "umask=000" for full and open options to every person on your machine.

Cool

already have done that and still no access although I used unmask=0222
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,user, noauto,unmask=0222 0 0

It's umask, not unmask

damn typo ..but still no access after change..error is :Could not enter folder /mnt/windows...this as my user as root I have access

Please post the output of
mount
and
ls -l /mnt


Cheers,
Tink

mount=
/dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /mnt/windows type ntfs (rw)

ls-l/mnt=
dr-x------ 1 root root 28672 May 11 13:31 windows

Guess there must be another typo in the
fstab, then :)
Copy & paste the thing?


Cheers,
Tink

ok here it is:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,user, auto,umask=0000 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0

This should give you access.

Just change the partitions and directories as you have them.
Otherwise see the http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info for more details on how to mount a ntfs partition

I think the suspicious word in your fstab line is user (I don't know what it does, or I don't want to know)

still no good..deleted the user line still cant change permissions...still have access as root but not as my user.....wtf..why cant i change permissions?? error is:Could not change permissions for /mnt/windows

I have a Fat32 drive on my machine at work, and I experience a similiar issue to the original poster. The /win2000/ mount on my box is always loaded, and I can browse through it as any user on my system, but only root can make changes to files, even .txt. Whenever I try to chmod or chown any files in the winblows partition, I get an error, something along the lines of "root cannot modify the attributes of these files". I have simply given up on modifying any of the windows files without first su'ing.

Peace,
JimBass

The 'user' part will allow ANY user mount and unmount such partition, but ONLY the user that mounted such partition has access to it. So, whom ever mounted the partition needs to unmount it for other user be able to use it.

The 'users' parameter would allow any user to mount/unmount regarding who mounted it in the first place.

And you have one more typo !!! in those parameters you are NOT supposed to have spaces in between.

Since you have it set to 'user' and 'auto' the first user to mount it is going to be root.

So if you want to use 'user' set it to 'noauto'

make sure you have created a folder /mnt/windows before trying to mount it

thanx Qucho that did it!!!
but im not sure what you ment by the spaces error??