Not Able to Access NTFS as normal user

rob0t · 09-20-2005, 11:48 PM

Hello It seems that I am not able to access the NTFS partitions using normal user (but able to read them using root),no matter what I do which is weird.

Here's my /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/hda6        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/hda5        /                reiserfs    defaults         1   1
/dev/hda1        /c               ntfs        ro,user          1   0
/dev/hda2        /f               ntfs        ro,user          1   0
/dev/sda1        /g               ntfs        ro,noatime,user,umask=0022,uid=1000,gid=users 1 0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,user,ro   0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,user      0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0

I'm looking to just read /g and I've tried different combinations but nothing seems to work. I took out uid and gid options, changed them, nada. I also installed Captive-NTFS but no avail.

I'm using the 2.6.13 kernel and the NTFS support is built-in. I've also checked google and LQ and nothing seemed to work.

All help appreciated, thanks.

aysiu · 09-20-2005, 11:59 PM

Try this:

Code:

/dev/sda1       /g  ntfs    nls=utf8,umask=0222 0       0

rob0t · 09-21-2005, 06:27 PM

Sorry it took me so long to reply, just came home.

I tried adding it and it did not work

I keep getting "Permission is Denied" while trying to 'ls /g'

aysiu · 09-21-2005, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rob0t
Sorry it took me so long to reply, just came home.

I tried adding it and it did not work

I keep getting "Permission is Denied" while trying to 'ls /g'

Can I assume you rebooted after editing the /etc/fstab?

rob0t · 09-21-2005, 06:52 PM

Yup, gives me "unable to load nls charset utf8" error though...Google didn't help me on that one...Is that a kernel module maybe? I saw some stuff on it and kernels...Though I don't think it could be it.

aysiu · 09-21-2005, 06:54 PM

I'll be honest. I don't know that much about /etc/fstab.
I gave you that mounting advice because it worked for me (I copied and pasted it out of the Ubuntu Guide).

Maybe this might help, though?

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

rob0t · 09-21-2005, 06:57 PM

Ah I got it to work. Just took out the "nls=utf8" part and added "ro" in front of "umask", reboot, and voila! It works. Thanks a bunch.