Okay, I'm running Fedora Core 4 (beautiful, especially since I love Red Fedoras..), I've mounted 2 other NTFS volumes already. One has a Windows XP install on it, and the other is used for backup and music.

They are NTFS, and I'm not running captive, so I'm not too worried about people having unauthorized write access to them. Under root, I can access the drives, browse them, and access files, such as my music. However, under my basic user account (which I have assigned to every group on my computer, maybe that was a mistake) I cannot access the files. I've set my user account as the owner of the drives, so I have access to the drives themselves, but all the files and folders inside the drives are locked. Basically, I wish to be able to play my music files under my linux install.

I've tried manually changing the permissions on the files, but it says I cannot change them, even as root. I can however change permissions to the folders.

I apologize if this problem has been posted and or solved by someone else somewhere else, if so, please refer me. Thank you in advance.

Forgiste

look at man mount:
uid=value, gid=value and umask=value
Set the file permission on the filesystem. The umask value is
given in octal. By default, the files are owned by root and not
readable by somebody else. The umask value is given in octal.

These are mount options you can add to the entry for your NTFS partitions in your /etc/fstab file.

Example of a line for /etc/fstab

Okay it works now, thanks. I actually had my /etc/fstab file setup correctly, but it was wrapping the text, so apparently it screwed up the formatting.

everything starting with umask was on a new line. I just backspaced a few times and it worked.

When booting however, it says
"Mount Point 0 does not exist" twice

it also says that line 10 of /etc/fstab is invalid syntax..

"LABEL=;

if ((ret = swap swap defaults 0 0"

^^ that is lines 8-10 of my /etc/fstab file. I didn't write that, that was automatically written there during the install process.
I'm afraid to delete it, because I want a swap partition to be active. My swap partition is /dev/hdd2, could I just delete the above and put
/dev/hdd2 swap swap defaults 0 0???

thanks again.

Never seen anything like that in fstab. When in doubt make a backup of the file. Then modify the orginal, if you have problems you can easily restore the backuped file. So I would delete those odd lines.

swap would look like what you said.
/dev/hdd2 swap swap defaults 0 0

Brian1