I've read quite a few posts just to get this far. Sorry if this same scenario has come up before.

I finally got my NTFS partitions mounted as a user other than root, and I got the permissions changed, so I could view what was on them. All I want is to be able to have a user read off them. I don't need to write to them, just view photos etc.

I finally got it to work, where it would actually let me view files. But when I clicked on a picture, it showed an empty browser (in Konqueror). When I clicked back, all the permissions had mysteriously changed back. Every file had the little lock on it. I even checked the permission beforehand, from the command line: ls -l

Here is fstab:

/dev/hde6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hde7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hde1 /mnt/hde1 ntfs ro 1 0
/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs auto,user,umask=222 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom1 auto noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/sda /mnt/usb auto noauto,user 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

First time, so maybe I did something wrong. I was just trying to read off of hde5. Maybe I wrote it wrong. It didn't work at all when it was just ro.

Any help would be appreciated. Sorry if I left out any info.

Is it /dev/hde1 or /dev/hde5 that you are having problems with. If it is hde1, try adding user after the ro flag, like for hde5.

Does it work as root? Without the "user" flag, it won't work for a user

I hope this helps
--Ian

Yeah, when I'm logged in as root, no problem. Hde1 actually has XP on it. That is why I'm just trying to get read access for hde5. It is basically a data partition.

I've had to ween myself from logging in as root. Unfortunately, adding a user causes other problems. I've just been working them out, one at a time.

I'm guessing something is wrong in the hde5 line. Just not sure what it is.

It used to read:

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs ro 1 0

I couldn't even access the partition then. Now I can access it, but nothing in it. I can see the files in it, I just can't open or view them. I'm pretty sure I need read and execute.

I think I set it all users read and execute hde5, as root. Everything was okay until I actually tried to view a picture. Every file on the drive locked up on me.

Thanks!

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs auto,rw,umask=000 1 0

before "rw "option
which kernel u r using? and is the modules loaded for ntfs read/write support?
(some "captive ntfs" is there)

It was the test kernel on the CD. 2.6.13

I just chose test26.s when I installed. Then upgradepkg *.tgz from the linux-2.6.13 directory on CD 2. I honestly don't know about the ntfs module.

I will try:

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs auto,rw,umask=000 1 0

I will post back. Thank you.

That did the trick. I can access the drive, I can see the files, AND I can access the files as well.

I sure would like to make user access read and execute only, though. I would like to limit write access to root only. Is this possible?

Do I change umask=000 to something else to do this?

Thanks again!

may b i am not sure abot this thing "lsmod" will list the modules, since u installed that package(module) from second cd it wil automatically load that why u could access the drive hi

umask works with the inverse of the values of "chmod", thus umask=000 means the same as chmod 777 *, "man fstab" for details. HTH.

Okay, lsmod. I always forget, I don't use that one too much. Thanks, that makes sense that it was loaded because I had root access. Thank you.

Thanks, I started out with this:

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs auto,user,umask=222 1 0

and then ended up with this:

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs auto,rw,umask=000 1 0

maybe I need to really do this:

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs auto,rw,umask=222 1 0

I originally had umask=222 (first post), but not rw. It just seemed like a bit of a contradiction to me. But what I had originally didn't work, so maybe I will try that.

Thanks everyone

You might still want to change that to

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs user,auto,rw,umask=222 0 0

but I'm not sure whether that is users (doing this from memory...). Maybe you can delete the "rw" tag then or rather change it to "ro" -- just to make sure.

I think the very first change I made to it was adding user. When I installed I think it looked like this:

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs ro 1 0

So I added user so it said user,ro. That didn't seem to help. That is when I went to auto,user,umask=222.

Making it read-only across the board (root also) is actually preferable. I will try what you said.

Both being 0 at the end seems right to. Not sure if I want to leave dump/fsck up to Linux. Only because it is a NTFS partition. Linux might try to eat it just for spite.



/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs user,auto,rw,umask=222 0 0

or

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs user,auto,ro,umask=222 0 0

One way to find out!

The line that I use in my fstab to get to my NTFS partition is...

and so far I have never had any problems accessing any of the files on that partition. If you need explanations on the different options that I'm using go to http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mount.8.html

Hope this helps!

Every other combination I tried except for:

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs auto,rw,umask=000 1 0

failed to let me have access. I tried combinations of auto,ro,umask=000 and auto,user,rw,umask=000 and many others. I tried to write it every way possible. I finally tried just umask=000. No luck!

From my first post:

/dev/hde7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1

This partition boots with the permissions set the way I would like them to be set for hde5. When I log in as user it is set as:

dr-xr-xr-x

This is what I would like for hde5. I will try:

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs noauto,owner,umask=022,users,noexec,nodev,ro 1 0

Thank you.

Still no access. I guess I'll just go back to the first one that worked. I just hate to have user write access on my NTFS partition!!!

BIG EDIT:

This seems to work:

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs auto,ro,umask=000 1 0

I would almost swear I tried the same except with 0 0 at the end. Maybe that was the difference. Anybody wan't to explain that one? At least it gave me what I was looking for. Logged in as a user, I get:

dr-xr-xr-x

Thank you everyone!

I have several NTFS partitions on my disk. I have no problems with mortal user accounts accessing the partitions and the partitions are mounted read-only. Here are my fstab entries:

# # # Windows NT4 partitions # # #
/dev/hda2 /mnt/nt_c1 ntfs noauto,users,ro,exec,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/nt_c2 ntfs noauto,users,ro,exec,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/nt_d ntfs ro,exec,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/nt_e ntfs ro,exec,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda8 /mnt/nt_k ntfs noauto,users,ro,exec,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda9 /mnt/nt_l ntfs noauto,users,ro,exec,umask=0222 0 0

I mount some of the partitions with noauto because I seldom access those partitions on a regular basis. The other partitions I access every time I boot into Slack.

I hope this helps.