Hi I got one fat partition and two ntfs partitions on my slack10.2 box .......... when Iam root all the partitions are accesible ..........when Iam a normal user only the fat partition is accessbile........this is my ftab :

/dev/hdc7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdc1 /winc vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/hdc5 /wind ntfs ro 1 0
/dev/hdc8 /winf ntfs ro 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,unhide,noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Another problem is that only root can mount and unmount the cdrom .........

Thanks for any help

It's likely because you have ro on the lines with the ntfs drives. Change them to defaults like the fat partition.

I tried it still the same problem

/dev/hdc7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdc1 /winc vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/hdc5 /wind ntfs defaults 1 0
/dev/hdc8 /winf ntfs defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,unhide,noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0


Any other ideas/??

what are the effective permissions on the directories after mounting them? As root run

ls -l /mnt

and see what the permissions are for wind and winf. Is it something like

root:root rwxr-----

You can change that with a umask option in the fstab lines, like this

/dev/hdc5 /wind ntfs defaults,gid=100,umask=002 1 0

to make it root:users rwxrwxr-x

Keep in mind, without a third party driver, like captive-ntfs, you won't be able to write to ntfs partitions. The kernel driver only allows modifications that don't change the file's original size.