//hulk.pentatonicrecords.com/egrimes /mnt/hulk smbfs credentials=/et
//hulk.pentatonicrecords.com/shiat /mnt/shiat smbfs credentials=/et
/dev/hda1 /mnt/xppro ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/xppro2 ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdd5 /mnt/backup1 ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdd6 /mnt/backup2 ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0

I have that in my /etc/fstab for mounting my windows partitions, obviously the first two are network shares. The only problem is if I try and copy anything to and from I have to do it as root because my user doesn't get access to the files. It wouldn't be so bad if my user could use the copied files. I copied some songs over to my linux partition as root and I couldn't play them because it said I didn't have the proper permissions. Is there anyway to change it so I can grant my user read/write access of all the volumes? Thanks.

i have " ro,users,umask=0022 " in my fstab for ntfs fs.
once i tried 0222 for umask ( wich sounds logic as it's read-only ) and got throubles. ( don't understand ??? )

also adding the option "users" might help.

egag

Hmm...that didn't seem to do anything. What's this users option you're talking about?

-----------from man mount
users Allow every user to mount and unmount the file system. This option implies the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden by subsequent options, as in the option line users,exec,dev,suid).
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read " man mount" .

but ... do you try to write to ntfs from linux ?

egag

Yea, I have some backup drives that are formatted in NTFS for my windows back up and I put songs on there from Linux and various other files. I'm not dealing with mount i'm dealing with /etc/fstab so it's auto mounting when I boot but apparently only my root user gets access to r/w. I'm sure there is some simple thing I'm missing but I can't figure it out.

try to use
dev/hdb1 /mnt/xppro2 ntfs ro,uid=username,umask=0222 0 0
etc.
may be it can do something.
but i am using vfat partition so i am not 100% sure that it may work

well...i would not use ntfs-write ( it's experimental... )
and all of your drives are "ro" in fstab....? ( that's read-only ).
furthermore when you edit fstab-lines your dealing with the "mount " command.

egag