Hi all,

great forum i found most of my linux probs here except for one, well almost.

I am trying to mount a NTFS partition that is connected as an usb mass storage device but i can't access those partitions. I think it has something to do with the permissions but i'm not sure.

i found a similar problem here at linuxquestions.org showthread.php?s=&threadid=273015

i tried the suggestions that were made theire and i changed my rules in /ect/fstab into this:

/dev/sda5 /mnt/mov ntfs auto,users,umask=000,ro 0 0
/dev/sda6 /mnt/appz ntfs auto,users,umask=000,ro 0 0
/dev/sda7 /mnt/mp3 ntfs auto,users,umask=000,ro 0 0

but i still dont have the permissions to view my files in X

What am i doing wrong???

i'm running Mandrake 10.1 btw

Your fstab looks correct I think. Why don't you post the exact error you see when you try to access the partition. Then someone may be able to help more.

Do the following:

Ctrl+Alt+F2
username: root
password: your root password

Then:
umount -a
remove the usb device.
reconnect the usb device.
It should output something like "Attached scsi disk sda at scsi blah blah blah....

Note what linux identified the usb device as. (sda, sdb, sdc etc...)

Next:
mkdir /mnt/ntfs
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs -t ntfs #Note: replace sda1 accordingly.

This should mount your device to /mnt/ntfs

Only root will be able to access /mnt/ntfs. In order to let normal users access the device add the following line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs noauto,users,exec 0 0 #Note: replace the sda1 bit accordingly.

Hope this helps,
vxc

EDIT: I hope you keep your USB device attached permanently. Otherwise linux may identify the device differently (i.e. sda might become sdc or sdd etc...) depending upon which particular device is fixed first.

vxc69, will try that tomorrow and will let you know if it helped

the exact error i got was: "Permission denied"

need to get some sleep it's 01h00 at night here

hmmmz i still get the Permission denied in commandline and i still can't view the files in X
X error message : Can't open Directory (or something like that)

are there other settings i can do?

I've hit a brick wall here. Maybe it's the ntfs module. Try reinstalling the ntfs module.