I searched the forum a bit and I dont really know how to change the permissions. I've mounted my winxp partition and I can only access it as root. I want to be able to access it as a regular user. I messed around a little bit with chmod, but it didnt work. anyone can help me?

If you don't wanna mess around with it using console, right click on the mounted drive and go to permissions, then just set the permissions as how you want them.....

That should work, i think there is a way of doing it in fstab but i'm not sure...

Hope this helps!

#Garry

the permissions section is disabled, because I'm not logged in as root

aah I just want my winxp partition to be automatically mounted with the correct permissions at boot

Open up a console....type 'su' enter your root password, cd to the mnt directory and try this 'chmod 777 /folder' should be something like that..

Run into any problems post back...

#Garry

Oh and go to /etc and open up fstab and posts it's contents... cause maybe i can change it there...

#Garry

well before I posted this I searched and I tried chmod 777 and it said that it's setting it to readonly, but still cant browse it. Here;s my fstab:

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Wheres your windows mount?

Is XP NTFS or vfat?

#Garry

Are you sure you even have it mounted

Ok i think i'm onto something....open up Mandrake Control Center or in command type 'drakconf' go the the mount points section then click on your windows partition.....is it mounted? If it's not mount it....

Then at the bottom there is a button called 'more' click on that, then on the left there should be these options 'Options, Unmount (if its mounted) and loopback' click on options, then find 'user' tick that then click ok...

Now see if you can access it...

#Garry

Oh you have to be root to change those options!

1) make sure that the dir you are mounting it to has correct permissions *before* you mount the drive there.

2) set umask=000 in your options when you mount that partition.

Open up your fstab, since you don't have an entry already for your XP drive, here's an example (taking Chris's explaination a bit further, he already gave you the answer though )

/dev/hdx /mnt/winxp users,auto,ro,umask=000 0 0

Replacing the hdx with the correct letter/number and making sure that /mnt/winxp is an actual directory to mount to.

The "auto" will make it auto mount at boot up. The "umask=000" sets the permissions for everyone to do anything to it, ro furthers that to read-only, and users makes all your users be able to mount and umount the drive as needed.

Cool

hmm at boot it said: fs type umask 000 not supported by the kernel

alright, I added a ntfs thing before it and it worked
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs users,auto,ro,umask=000 0 0


thank you all!

errr it says readonly filesystem though is there away I can write to it?

only if you want to destroy your data. don't.

default kernels (installed with distributions) have ntfs read-only support and if you want to mount ntfs as read-write for this you have to compile kernel.