I've got my /dev/hda1 drive mounted...it's an NTFS drive. I can read it fine as root. But, as we all know, running as root all the time isn't the greatest of ideas. There are files I want to access on this drive, but don't want to be logged in as root. I've tried "chmod" and "chown" but neither seem to work. I still can't access this directory even though it says permissions and ownership has been changed.

Any clues?

how did you mount it?
I assume you add an entry into /etc/fstab
Can you post it if that is the way you did it?

Try this in your /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda1 /win ntfs uid=500,gid=500,umask=000,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 0
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Tangle - I wouldnt tell him to use this - Its an NTFS filesystem he's mounting

You've give him a

umask=000

This will give Read Write and Execute access on all files -

Writing to a NTFS filesystem is likely to corrupt it.

Also you've gave him

rw

This also allows the possibility to Write to the partition.

This is more suitable

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,ro,umask=222,uid=501 0 0

Just substitute in your partition, mount point and User id number.

You can get your User ID Number by opening a command line and typing:

id username – (substitute username with whatever your username is)

Look for the

uid=xxx

thats your user id number.

Thanks guys, I'll give that a shot once I get home.

I did add the mount to fstab; but I read somewhere on how another person did it and instead of the string "auto,ro,umask=222,uid=501" I simply have defaults. So, I'll try changing that as you have suggested, Skyline.

Thanks!

Did not work. I have the string in my /etc/fstab just as Skyline has posted, except I've changed it according to my system and my uid. I, as my username, cannot access the directory. Root does it just fine. Works find for my username at work...aggrivating.