I want to read off of my other hard disk which has Windows on it and I was able to for a while and then magically after I restarted my computer and booted into Windows and then restarted again and booted back into Linux I was no longer able to read off my Windows hard disk in Linux....what gives? Before I could access it using my normal username; now I can only read it if I go into the terminal as root. Harddrake says that my Windows hard disk is owned by root (makes sense but I thought I'd just throw it in there). My /etc/fstab is posted below.


/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb2 /home/windows ntfs umask=755,user,suid,dev,exec 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

The umask=755 only allows writing files on the partition. umask=0222 might be better for a NTFS partition, since you can't write to the partition anyway. Since the owner and group are root, the last number of the umask is what is important.

Consider creating a group for the purpose of controlling access to this drive, and using the gid=<groupname> option. Then you can control which users can access the partition by making allowed users members of the group.