mount issue

[coopstah13]

I have a dual boot system on my laptop Debian Sid / Windows XP.

I am trying to mount NTFS partition.

I have directory windows in /mnt, ls -l output:

ccooper-lap:/mnt# ls -l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-12-12 12:56 usb
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2007-12-13 09:45 windows

this is before I mount the partition.
I have it set up in /etc/fstab.

/dev/hda1       /mnt/windows    ntfs    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 2

After I type 'mount windows'.

ccooper-lap:/mnt# mount windows
ccooper-lap:/mnt# ls -l
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2007-12-12 12:56 usb
drwx------ 1 root root 12288 2007-12-10 14:40 windows

The directory goes to permission 700 rather than staying at 777. So i cannot access the files unless I am root or I do 'chmod -R 777 windows'. This makes it work but it takes a long time to do, and i don't want to have to do t his every time, anyone know what might be wrong?

My output for mount is

ccooper-lap:/mnt# mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda4 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type ntfs (rw,errors=remount-ro)

[devils casper]

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 2

It should be

/dev/hda1       /mnt/windows    ntfs    defaults,umask=0 0 0

Install ntfs-3g to enable NTFS write access and replace ntfs with ntfs-3g in /etc/fstab file.

su
apt-get install ntfs-3g

/etc/fstab

/dev/hda1       /mnt/windows    ntfs-3g    defaults,umask=0 0 0

All users will have write access in NTFS partition.

[coopstah13]

quick today! works, thanks

[devils casper]

Glad to help you.
Have fun with Linux !!!