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Trouble mounting FAT32 and NTFS under SuSE 9.2

I have Win2k and SuSE 9.2 on the same machine, and need to mount one of the windows partitions under Linux. This I can accomplish, but only root has write permissions. First tried with NTFS, after that I madea separate FAT32 partition to see if it would work (dunno if writing NTFS under Linux is still "unstable"), no success. Chown and chmod don't do anything (and now I'm asking myself why would they :P).

Contents of /etc/fstab:

Code:

/dev/hda7            /                    reiserfs  acl,user_xattr        1 1

/dev/hda1            /windows/C          ntfs      ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0

/dev/hda6            swap                swap      pri=42                0 0

devpts              /dev/pts            devpts    mode=0620,gid=5      0 0

proc                /proc                proc      defaults              0 0

usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0

sysfs                /sys                sysfs      noauto                0 0

/dev/cdrom          /media/cdrom        subfs      fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

/dev/dvdrecorder    /media/dvdrecorder  subfs      fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

/dev/fd0            /media/floppy        subfs      fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0

/dev/hda5            /windows/d          ntfs      defaults              0 0

/dev/hda8            /windows/G          vfat      defaults              0 0

Thanks in advance.

Found a hackish fix but it really can't be this complicated...

Changed this:

Code:

/dev/hda8 /windows/G vfat defaults 0 0

into this:

Code:

/dev/hda8 /windows/G vfat user,noauto 0 0

and now the permissions are for whoever mounts it, adding "mount /windows/G" in .xinitrc mounts the partition at xdm login. Am i thinking too complicated or just plain stupid?

edit: auto mounting off

May I point you to this post:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...73#post1334273

Sorry, I am too lazy to write this again ;)

And you were right: ntfs write is not supported!