I cannot get permissions to read my windows drive (hdc1).
here's the fstab line
/dev/hdc1 /media/windows ntfs ro,nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
....
unless i'm root I can't even read the drive..........
i'v tried all kinds of things and i just won't give me the permissions to read it...........thanks for any help....

Hi, i am using ubuntu feisty, and i am encountering a very similar problem as the above post. So instead of starting a new thread, i am posting here. Untill yesterday, every thing was working OK, i was able to read and write to my windows partitions then all of a sudden, today, i rebooted and i cant access the windows partitions any more.. i tried using the ntfs-config utility, but it just asks if i want to enable the write support for internal partitinons, i tell it yes and thats it..

here is the output from my /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs-3g auto,umask=007,users 0 0
/dev/sda6 /mnt/win_e ntfs-3g auto,umask=007,users 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/ExtDisk1 auto defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
/dev/sdb6 /mnt/ExtDisk3 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /mnt/ExtDisk2 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
/dev/sda8 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0


By all reasoning this should work. but it does not. As far as i can figure out, the problem is that the permission that are set for the directories are problematic.


myname@myname-laptop:/mnt$ ls -l
total 88
drwxr-xr-x 2 myname root 4096 2007-04-14 17:19 ExtDisk1
drwxr-xr-x 2 myname root 4096 2007-04-14 17:20 ExtDisk2
drwxr-xr-x 2 myname root 4096 2007-04-14 17:26 ExtDisk3
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28672 2007-04-19 20:20 win_c
drwxrwx--- 1 root root 20480 2007-04-19 18:52 win_d
drwxrwx--- 1 root root 28672 2007-04-14 17:53 win_e

I have tried changing the ownership of win_c, win_d, win_e to myname but ubuntu just changes them back.
i had been reading and writing to windows partitions in Mandriva before this, and never had a problem. In fact as i have already mentioned, it was working just fine in ubuntu, untill one day it decided not to work any more....

Any suggestions please as to what could i do to make it work again...

PS. the systems are mounted since i can access using root from the console.

Changed the umask value to umask=0000. the problem is solved now.
...................
sorry for interrupting this thread.

I still haven't figured it out

Try this line.
its from my own fstab file and seems to be working okay.

/dev/hdc1 /media/windows ntfs defaults,umask=0000,users 0 0

then do a
sudo umount -a
followed by

sudo mount -a

I hope this works..