NTFS issue

[Mark Bidewell]

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.