Re: NTFS issue

[Mark Bidewell <mark bidewell alumni clemson edu>]

Mike McCarty wrote:

> Yogen Mankikar wrote:
>
> > I have successfully mounted ntfs drive, but it is accessible only to 
> > the root user.
> > As a regular user I get 'permission denied' error.
> > What am I missing?
> > Here's what I did as root.
> >
> > mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/C
> > mount -t ntfs /dev/hda5 /mnt/D
> >
> > After making sure I was able to access both ntfs drives, I added the 
> > following to /etc/fstab
> >
> > /dev/hda1    /mnt/C       ntfs        defaults           0     0
> > /dev/hda5    /mnt/D       ntfs        defaults           0     0
> Try adding ",user" after the "defaults". If you can mount your floppy, 
> look at how
> /etc/fstab shows it for an example.
>
> [snip]
>
> Mike
I have dealt with a similar issue.  Add umask=000 to your options.