I am complealy new to the whole linux thing......I have two hardrives one with slackware with kde and the other is my ntfs windows drive. I am trying to access my windows drive in linux. so far i have mounted and can access it through my root but when i use my regular user i can it says permison is denied. I was told to edit the fstab or mtab. i have tryed slackwares web page but it reads like stereo instructions any help would be great..

auto,ro,umask=0222

having them options in your fstab for the ntfs partition should do ...

for example :

usually it's just the matter of who owns /mnt/your_mnt_point, and what type of access rights.

if /mnt/your_mnt_point owns by root group root, and access right is default. then you can't access it unless you login as root.

two solution:
1. use chmod to change access rights for /mnt/your_mnt_point.
2. make a user group, include your username to the group, use chown to change /mnt/your_mnt_point group to the new group name, use chmod to change group access rights of /mnt/your_mnt_point.

option 2 provide more security control.

i will give you thoughts a try and find out what happens

Ok problem....... I did the unmask thing and now i can open it in my user but the the folder is empty

you obviously have to mount it.

Don't mount the ntfs rw, though, unless you have the 2.6.2 kernel (its dangerous to write to an ntfs disk under linux since windows won't release public code for it.)

The user has to mount it.