Have added a second hard drive and spent the best part of three hours playing about all to no avail.

i cannot write to the drive as myself. however if i type in the konsole kdesu konqueror i can then drag and drop files. so format and mount point wise i'm happy. below is my fstab. what have i done wrong?

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage ext3 defaults 0 0

I don't see anything wrong in fstab. Open an root konsole and do a 'ls -ld /mnt/storage' and see who owns the directory and what the permissions are set to. If it is owned by root, you could chown it to your user, and change the permissions with chmod so you can read and write to it.

Oh, yes this is Kubuntu. I think you need to do those commands as 'sudo ls -ld /mnt/storage' unless you go to the Ubuntu site (the instructions can be found there) and enable a root user so you can simply so a 'su' and password to a root user.

One of these should help:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux.html