Note:- I'm not for familiar with Linux, But have keen desire to be.

Hi,
First of all, Greetings to all linuxquestion.org members. This my first post here.

I install Mandrake9.1 on my PC contain Intel manufactured 865GBF Motherboard, Nvidia Geforce4/Creative SB Live!, 40Gb. Samsung HDD and Sony CD/CD-RW/DVD Combo. I'm Facing following problems.

Problem no. 1.
As soon as I login As Root, Linux run properly, but I can't see anything on my desktop. No Icon, LinuxMenu (Start Menu) also doesn't respond to Windows Key. But all things works fine when I do loogin from ***user.


Problem no. 2.
I try my hand for mounting NTFS partition, I use Diskdrake, anyhow somehow, I'm succeed to mounting it. Even though I still don't know I'm doing right or not. I just give mount point to /dev/hda1as /windows/cdrive for Windows partition and press the mount button. Now I'm able to access these mounted drives, But as root only. When I tried it from ***user, it says "You don't have permissions to access this file."

Problem no 3.
Just assume I mount windows partition in /dev/c and so on, If I delete the /dev/c file, does it delete my drive partition also, once one of my friend says, In linux every thing is a file.

Problem no. 4
I just download some pdf files form mandrake support site to read and learn, I download it from windows coz of Downloaded manager, switch to linux, and mention above login as root to access ntfs partition system, copy all those files to /***user/linuxguide/ and login as ***user, but to my great dismay, I just can't access those file, it say I don't have enough permission to access thease file.

Please suggest what to do.

I know I can google it, I tried, Even not only google, I also try reading help from linux itself, But found nothing suit to my need.

I had Have problem with my sound card, But In desire to learn linux, I just purchase a new linux compatible sound card, Just for learning linux. I Lost my data two times when I trying installing, But the desire doesn't seems to be fade. Please help me to learn something.

Problem 1. This is done on purpose by Mandrake for security reasons. Instead use a console windows and use the su command.

Problem 2. You need to modify the /etc/fstab to allow regular users to mount and access. Post your /etc/fstab file.

Problem 3. No, it will not delete the actual partition or data contained within. And yes everything is considered a file.

Problem 4. When the files copied their permissions were set automatically for root access only. You need to use the chmod command change permissions.

See the man pages for information on the chmod command.

Ok

Let's try to answer something of your questions:

2) insert this options in your /etc/fstab file ( You MUST be root to do it )

example:
/dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=ut

with this tip even problem 4 should be solved

See you

Here is my /etc/fstab file.

/dev/hdc1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
//khr/C /mnt/khr/c smbfs user,username=%,noauto 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /windows/c ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/d ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /windows/e ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc5 swap swap defaults 0 0


I try to give permission for mounted drive for another user. But it reply with error that I can not set permission for this folder. I do this as root. I click on folder, click on properties for /windows/c and set permission. as root. What is the simple command to mount NTFS partition in RW mode and allow this to all user.

There is no problem with mandrake8.2, is this feature come after mandrake8.2

Yes.


You can not set permissions of a mount point when the filesystem is mounted.

/dev/hda1 /windows/c ntfs defaults 0 0

should be:
/dev/hda1 /windows/c ntfs users,umask=222 0 0

That way any user can mount or unmount the filesystem as read only. You will need to recompile the kernel for NTFS read / write support but it is not recommended. In computer years MDK 9.1 would have really old drivers. I prefer using a FAT32 filesystem to share data.

I do not have any actual experience but check the following:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/