I am very new to Linux. Two days ago I installed Suse 9.2. Love it, but I'm having a big problem. I've done a search of the threads and have not found a solution.
When I'm in normal user mode I can not save any files or create any folders in my drives. I always get access denied as a response. They are NTSF format. When I'm in root it is not a problem. I would like to be able to save things I download. It wont even let me save to the Linux drive.
Thanks in advance for help. Could we keep responses simple. I have no idea how to do anything. Does anyone know of a good Linux book?

hmm... as simple as I can:

First you'll need to know what your user ID and group ID numbers are. This can be accomplished like so:
So my UID would be 1000 as well as my GID

Next, you'll need to edit the /etc/fstab file and find the line where your NTFS drive is defined. My fat drive looks like so:
Once you find that line, edit the fourth column and add the uid and gid stuff.

Finally unmount and remount the drive (as root)
Now all the files will be owned by you and you may write to the drive without root access.

Thanks so much for your help. I'm going to give it a try right now. Do you need to de in root mode when you the editing?

Cheers

Yes, you'll need to be root

Well I gave it a shot. After entering /etc/fstab I got the response permission denied. Also I found my uid=1000 but my gid=0. Is the that right?

Thank you for your help
simpleaudio0100001

Sorry, that didn't work at all.

Any other ideas

I get this message when I try to change permission on that drive. Changing the attributes of files is not supported with protocol drives. What cen I do about this?

The GID being 0 might be normal.

Please paste the fstab file that you were editing and what changes you made.

o.k. this is what I got.
uid=1000(my name),gid=0(root) groups=0(root),16(dailout),33(video)

I changed the /etc/fstab to

/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs acl,uid=1000,gid=0,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,uid=1000,gid=0,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /windows/E ntfs ro,users,uid=1000,gid=0,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0


when I did the umount/mount thing it worked on all the drives except the one linux is installed on. It said it was buisy.

/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,uid=1000,gid=0,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /windows/E ntfs ro,users,uid=1000,gid=0,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0

OK, take out the ro on these lines. That stands for "read only".

Then do a umount on hda1 and sda1 then mount hda1 and sda1.

Also, I should mention that writing to an NTFS drive in Linux is still experimental. SuSE might not even support it.. but we shall see

Thanks man.

What about my linux drive. Why can I only write to it when in root mode?

My drive with the linux opperating system on still says access denied to new folder??? It wont let me change the permission on it.

In Linux, as a nomral user you can generally only write to your home directory and /tmp (which is for temporary files). This is standard practice in *nix operating systems to make sure you can't hose the system as a normal user. If you did something in your home directory and are getting permissions denied, post the results of "ls -l <filename>", which tells you the permissions.