I created a new folder in my Home directory to mount an NTFS share to it. I did this, but I had to do it as SU. Doing so, root took ownership of the folder, therefore taking all my read/write/execute, etc... permissions away. I tried logging in as root and giving ownership back to my user, but it wouldnt do it. How can I get permission to manipulate the data in the directory?

a non root user can only mount partitions/device/samba shares (it is samba you're using yeah?) that are strictly defined ni /etc/fstab, as being able to mount anything is inherently insecure.

set up the share in fstab and just specify the rights there. my fstab lists

//simon/share /share smbfs username=chris,password=pass,user

'user' defines that a user can mount the share my themselves. as for prooper permissions, that's down to the server i think, you can't override a remote shares rights locally, for obvious reasons, but you can restrict them.

check 'man smbmount' for info on what atrribs you can put in there.

That is deffinetly a better way of getting the shares mounted, but I still can't change the contents when I am logged in as myselft. I have read only access. When I am logged in as root i can do anything I want except change ownership/ permissions on the mount point. I like the icon on the desktop,and auto mount this does though.

well what have you put in fstab?

i have desktop icons for my shares set up that way, once their mounted rescan devices and they'll appear, in gnome that is.

try doing what i did and just mount it as the user, there's no way that, assuming the server is set up right, you can't access stuff.

as root do: chmod o+w directory name

Finally figured it out, at the end of my command in fstab, I had to put the option UID=username, rw. That did it. Thanks for everyones help in the matter.