So do you mount an NTFS partition then? If so, most recent Linux distros will already have NTFS filesystem support built into the kernel, simply mount it whever you want:
Code:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
assuming /dev/hda1 is your NTFS partition and you want to mount it to /mnt/windows. Sholdn't be a need to go poking around recompiling the kernel.
As phil has already mentioned though, writing back to NTFS isn't considered a good idea, but reading should be fine. I've resized NTFS partitions without problems and read data off them for a couple of years, but still wouldn't want to write large amounts of data back to it as you loose the security permissions that make NTFS worthwhile implementing over FAT32. I'm sure others will say NTFS is fine to write back to, but I wouldn't risk it.