Write to NTFS mount as non-root
 

Is there a way that I can mount my windows NTFS partition so that I can write to it as a non-root user? I have write support for NTFS included in my kernel but as a non-root users it always gives me the following error:

You do not have enough permissions to read file:/Windows/C

I have tried using both the konqueror file manager in super-user mode to change the folder permissions, but I can only change one folder at a time (i.e. cannot click apply to all sub-folders and files, it gives error: cannot change permissions for some random folder/file) and cannot change permissions for any individual file. I have also tried a kde root session and I can access and write to the directories no problem but changing the file permissions has no effect, if I reboot the permissions are exactly the same as they were prior to the reboot.

I want to be able to read from the windows NTFS partition at least, to test Wine with several apps; and that is also where all of my music is stored, so I can't use XMMS to listen to any tunes unless I am root, which is kinda crappy. Is there any way I can remedy this?

I am using Slackware-Current and KDE 3.3.1

Thank you in advance for any advice.

Right now, NTFS support is not good enough to reliably write to an NTFS partition. For an update on NTFS support go to:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

As for writing NTFS now, check out Captive NTFS, it works for me:

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

Eric

although I agree that writing on ntfs might be not very safe you can do it.


when you mount the partion you can add these extra parameters:

uid=value, gid=value and umask=value (in the fourth colum)

(man mount show this info)

I suggest you add an extra group (ntfs-wr ) and make the mask
003 this way only the members of that group will be able to
write.

Regards

Tlowk