My 3 HD's

1) XP (Master)
2) OpenSuse 11.4 (Slave)
3) 250GB drv on a PCI adapter card that increases my IDE from 4 to 8
4) DVD writer (Master)
5) CD-DVD reader only (Slave)

The drive I want to read & write to is /windows/D (#3)...right now I can view the contents but not write to...after I clean-scan for virus' as a regular user...I can write-save to DVD's but not the 3rd drive (ie...Access Denied).
I have little knowledge of the CLI so I try and grant permission via the root GUI..I login as root, bring up the drive (250GB), change permission to my user name and group...click apply which supposedly = success...but when I go back to my regular user I'm still denied.

What am I doing wrong ?
I understand as a regular user...ie /home/username that I unable to create a directory in any other place...how can I change that ?

I take it you are using "Evergreen" repos for the past End of life 11.4
12.2 and 12.3 are the current only supported versions

as to having a normal user read/write to a NTFS partition
you need to set it up in /etc/fstab
SUSE's default behavior for the old Gnome2 in 11 was to have it read ONLY by non root users
this is also STD in the current for "NTFS-3g"

something like this
( assuming it is XP service pack 3 and the C:\\ is /dev/sda1 )
from opensuse 11.4 run as root ( su - or sudo )
( -l is a lowercase L "l" )
that will inform you as to what the win C:\\ drive is
first make the folder in /mnt
replace "YourNormalUserName" with your real user name
then add the fstab entry and reboot

if there is an error in the fstab line then the boot will STOP before booting
if that happens
use the rescue disk to undo the line in fstab
( simply put a " # " at the start of that line -- MINUS the two "" only the #

your instructions seem simply enough...do they change any when I'm using KDE vs Gnome ?

If I follow you correctly...use fdisk -l to find out what the 250GB "linux" name is...switch to root "su" and make a directory using the result from fdisk for the 250GB and then change ownnership of that directory to my username showing the /mnt point ?

Not sure I understand what you are trying to do but assume you are writing to the disc with linux. A problem I often have that is down to linux not giving normal users access to the root directory of any disc. The solution is simple. As root create a directory on the disc and give that what ever user rights you want. You will be able to write to the directory. This aspect is probably where the term root user came from.

As the other post pointed out ntfs is not fully available on an normal install. This has been of no interest to me for a long time so do not know how to enable it. A search for ntfs read write opensuse may find instructions. When I last used it ntfs functionality was built into the kernel and just disabled. Not sure of the situation now.

Another solution I have used in the past is to use a windows utility that allows the linux partitions on a system to be read and written to as if they were part of windows. Google may bring up a suitable utility. I've not used windows at all for at least 10 years so can't remember the name.

John
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