Access to NTFS / Filesystems

[fedchoe]

When I mount my NTFS drives through /etc/fstab in the starting of the OS, the NTFS drives are only fully accessable with root. I have to set permitions for other users manually for every file and folder on the NTFS drives every time i remount the partition or reboot the copmuter.

They are mounted in /media/hda1 etc.

Any solutions to this problem?
What is the best filesystem to use with both windows and linux?

[John A]

It's very simple, and has everything to do with the options you give in the line in your /etc/fstab file. Try using the following:

/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs rw,users,gid=users,umask=000 0 0

It's a bit insecure, but you can adjust umask and gid as needed.

[fedchoe]

Thank you very much

[devils casper]

If you use ntfs as FileSystem in /etc/fstab file, it wont allow write access to any user including root. Install ntfs-3g package for NTFS write access.
This code is enough for enabling read access for all Regular users.

/dev/hda1  /media/hda1  ntfs   defaults,umask=0   0  0

Just replace ntfs with ntfs-3g after ntfs-3g installation. All users will have write access too.

[fedchoe]

My debian server is currently not connected to the internet. Tried to look for ntfs-3g in the Synaptic Package administrator by a search, and tried to look for it at Debian -- Packages but didnt find anything but libntfs9. Does that package help me anything? Any other places I should look?

[fedchoe]

Hey! I found it. No problem. Thanks alot!

[Highjo]

hiI i'm supposed to create a thread about his probleme, since you guys are already on one of my probleme i found right to post it here.

i've been trying to find the linux distro that suits me.After trying ubuntu, fedora core i'm on debian 4.0 ro etch now.i'have acouple of question here.With fedora i don't have any windows based filesystem mounting and ubuntu does that automaticaly.In fedora the mysql server user group has the root user and his password.That desn't seem be the case here.
1. how can i mount my other disk? you can see them in my computer screenshot.I've tried to update my /etc/fstab files adding this:
/dev/hda5 /home/highjo ntfs rw,user,auto 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home/highjo ntfs rw,user,auto 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /home/highjo fat rw,user,auto 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /home/highjo ntfs rw,user,auto 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home/highjo ntfs rw,user,auto 0 0
the result was disastrous i couldn't log in the operating system and was obliged to reinstall the system.
i've tried to mount to /media and the folder was locked.how can i get through this.
2.How can i deal with mysql server. i mean to connect to it through mysql-administrator what would be the hostname?
3.i've never developed php in linux and want to try it.already install it(i guest) apache2 and phpmyadmin.Now comes the IDE probleme.bluefish and quanta + are really poor (unless i dont know how to use it).need something similar to dreamweaver.
4.i have fatal error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device any time i'm tryint to read a dvd avi file.can someone give a suggestion or even suggest a beter reader.kmplayer is not bad,ogle too ant ireally dont like totem.
Ps: please show how install a sofware donloaded from the net.i don't have the net right now.if i need to do any of your suggestion that needs to be downloaded from the net.
i attached a screenshot of my mountint error!
thanks!!!

[devils casper]

Lets sort out problems one by one.
Open Terminal/Konsole and execute this

su -
/sbin/fdisk -l
df -h

Post output here. Post the contents of /etc/fstab file too.

[techieMoe]

hiI i'm supposed to create a thread about his probleme, since you guys are already on one of my probleme i found right to post it here.

In the future, please do create your own threads, regardless of how similar it might be to an existing one. It's confusing for the moderators (who don't know which person they're addressing) and a wee bit rude to the original poster (who just had their thread taken over in order to deal with someone else's problem.

If you'd like to create a new thread, I'll move any replies you get in this one to the new thread.

[Highjo]

created a new thread named : help!customizing my new installed bedian.thanks!