Hi,

I recently installed Suse 9.3 Pro as a dual boot setup with windows XP Pro Sp1. Suse reads all my windows drives without problems exept one which is formatted as an XP NTFS dynamic drive and contains all my music. I have worked out how to get this drive to mount and can view it's contents but cannot play any of the songs. I'm pretty sure it's a permissions issue as all the individual files are owned by root with rw acess which i have not been able to change. I can change permissions on the containing directories and files copied to my home directory play fine. I realise the simple answer would be to backup the data and reformat the dynamic disk as basic but I don't have a spare 60GB to play with. Any help sorting this out would be appreciated.

TIA
Simon.


**edit** links created as root in my user Home folder also play when accessed as root but are locked to my user. Links created as my user don't play.

As far as i remember
there is an option of dynamic disk support in the kernel
u can check the config file of your kernel whicih u may find in /boot

regards

Thanks masand,

kernel support is there as I can browse the drive and play the files as root, the problem is that I cannot do so as my user nor can I alter the permissions (-rw------- root root) of the files on the XP dynamic drive. I can alter the permissions of the folders containing the files though.

Simon

there is limited write suport for ntfs in Linux kernel
you can only replace files
for that too u need to make sure that u have write support for NTFS in ur kernel

regards

Thanks for the clue masand!
Thinking about write support led me to add this line to /etc/fstab-

/dev/hdd1 /mnt/win/toons ntfs rw,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0

now I have tunes while I sort out the rest of this linux business..

Thanks again

Simon

well i ahve not used nls=utf8
i have gone with iso-8859-1

but i hope everything is fine with utf8
and it should become a standard now

regards