Cannot read Windows partition. Permission problems

I am using SUSE 9.3. I mounted my windows partition (hda1) to /media/windows.
I can access it fine as root, and when I do:

chown -R micro420 /media/windows , I can DISPLAY the contents of the folder but I cannot COPY them to my /home directory. I get 'permission denied', BUT, it copies fine if I do it as root.

So how do I fix this little permission problem?

Did you manually mount it? If so, with what command? If not, what does your /etc/fstab look like?

My fstab

/dev/hdb5 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hdb7 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hdb6 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/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs user 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /media/windows1 ntfs user 0 0

No, I do not mount it manually. SUSE has done it for me. Hope this helps?

Originally posted by Micro420 /dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs user 0 0

Change this line to read

/dev/hda1       /media/windows  ntfs    nls=utf8,umask=0222 0       0

You'll have to make this change as root.

Thanks! It worked! Can you explain what the additions mean? To me they look like random numbers.

Also, would I make the same entry to

/dev/hdb1 /media/windows1 ntfs user 0 0

I want to have /media/windows1 also be the same as /media/windows

Originally posted by Micro420 Thanks! It worked! Can you explain what the additions mean? To me they look like random numbers.

I have no idea. I just copied them out of the Ubuntu Guide. If you want to learn more about the /etc/fstab syntax, though, you can read this.

Also, would I make the same entry to /dev/hdb1 /media/windows1 ntfs user 0 0 I want to have /media/windows1 also be the same as /media/windows

Yes, same principle, different directory.