Man do i know how to pick a problem, lol
ok here's my problem:
i have a FireWire HD of 60 GB's and its formated to NTFS. When i turn on the FIreWire HD Fedora core 3 auto mounts it right on my desktop, So far so good. But when i try Access it i get this:
You do not have the permission necessary to view the contents of "ieee1394disk". i even installed the the regular rpm from "linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net"
where it mounts "/dev/sda1 /media/ieee1394disk"
root can open the and see the HD, but i would also like to write to it if possible

So how do i change the permission to access the my ieee1394disk when ever i connect it as a regular user ?

I'm no expert, but looking at the line in /etc/fstab that mounts the drive might help.
Right after plugging in my usb pen drive I took a look at /etc/fstab and noticed that it had added
I've had a problem on other distros that I could mount a device but then as a normal user was unable to unmount the device. (So this automatic adding process is not always perfect, sometimes a manual entry to /etc/fstab works better)

With regards to the writing to the NTFS device, I do not believe this is possible.
I've never heard of anybody bieng able to write to ntfs, as the current driver does not support this. (See http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.)

As I said before, I'm no expert so any corrections to what I've said above are welcome.

Hope this helps
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this is the line it adds:
/dev/sda1 /media/ieee1394disk ntfs pamconsole,fscontext=system_u: object_r: removable_t, exec, noauto, managed 0 0

what's the fuction of umask=0 ???? What's the different between the options user and users in the fstab file???

"umask" is a filter of permissions, so it works in the opposite way to chmod. Full permissions are equivalent to 777 (rwxrwxrwx).

problem solve, i should have thought of this before. i copy'd my FIreWire file over to my regual HD and formated the FireWire HD to Fat32. And now it works like a charm.