Hi,

Currently I'm using Slackware 12.2 with KDE 3.5.10 from the installation and I have a USB external HDD with one partition formatted in NTFS.

I'm asking help or suggestion to make file owner to be like user_name:users and umask 022 when automounting with KDE.

NTFS-3G works fine with HAL and KDE Media manager, but the file owner is always root:root with umask 000. Strangely, if I mount the device with pmount from console with command pmount-hal /dev/sda1 -e, the owner and permission is correct.

I've done some googling and found info in Arch Linux Wiki about setting fmask and dmask for NTFS-3G in HAL policy file, but this doesn't work on my system, the NTFS volume mounted from KDE still have same permission.

Thanks.

KDE does not honor all the mount options for HAL. You can find a work-around in the first sticky thread: "12.0 and HAL - READ THIS!"
See the last post there. It's for vfat but you can adapt it to ntfs very easily.