Hi

i have added my windows Hard Drive into the system as a slave on 1st IDE chanel

added line
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows ntfs noauto,owner,ro,user 0 0
to the /etc/fstab

mount share with as root
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows

and only root can access it but i want to be able to moutn and share it with users on the system.
all i get is permision denied and u dont have access to mount it etc.

i changed the permsion of the /mnt/windows folder but only gets changed back on mount to the defult.

i must be mising somethink simple out here

many thanks
kudos

Try using the umask option set to 022 for user read permission or 000 for user full access.

mount -t ntfs -o umask=022 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows ntfs noauto,umask=022 0 0

works grate now.

thanks

i have a problem when mouting other partitions...
that i have to guess.... /dev/hdX so i have to replace
X for a letter wich i don't know wich one is... is there
any way i can list all my partitions from linux!??

thanx

Try "fdisk -l" (lowercase L) from a console command prompt.

nice

where do i enter those umask options so that it's done on every boot up so that i don't have to remount the drives everytime.

/etc/fstab

Cheers,
Tink

i just want to make sure as to where to edit it so i don't fubar my install (finally have it running almost exactly how i like it). my fstab looks like this when it comes to those drives:

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /wxp vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/hdb1 /archives vfat defaults 1 0

the area that reads defaults is where i enter those options?

after a bit of man reading i know to poot the options in the 4th field. is the syntax supposed to be mode=000 or umask=000 ?

Yep :)

But a quick "man fstab/man mount" would have told you
that, too ;)

Cheers,
Tink

i know tinkster, sorry for that :/ lol. still trying to get used to actually useful help files...

ok i have a similar problem. /dev/hda5 is my windows partition, and I put this into fstab:
/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs noauto,umask=022 0 0
saved and exited. now I tried to mount hda5 manually (mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/win) and the /mnt/win dir has been created, but it gives me this error.
mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel
Do I need to do something else? I will reboot now and see if that fixes it.

Thanks,
digsby

Are you using Red Hat if so you will have to download the rpm that matches your kernel from here: NTFS Project

If you are using Mandrake NTFS support should be included.

Good Luck