Permissions Error?

[@trapine]

I have suse 10.1 installed with Ext3 and everything is running well, But when i plug in a USB key or usb hard drive i get a Permission denied Error. Even when i try and mount it I get the same thing?
When i had reiserFS on this same system my USB Stick used to just Auto mount when i plugged it in?
Any help would be much appreciated.

[aliov]

try to add something like that /dev/sda1 /media/flash vfat noauto,users,rw,exec,umask=000 0 0
in your fstab file and then try to mount it.

[Braz]

New to Linux and learning day by day. I have read many post but I don't seem to understand how to make changes to permissions. For example, accessing my external hard drive. I can view but I am not able to write to. It is formatted NTFS. Can someone please explain how I can access the drive freely. I have only one user account. I would also like to access my windows D drive. I need the space to back up media. Another challenge is access to the internet. Currently deployed and Linux box is not authorized on network. Please help as this is my only means of entertainment while viewing the hot desert.

I have a seagate external usb 300 gigbyte hard drive that I am unable to write too. The error I receive is:
"Could not make folder /media/SCSI0_VOL1/****"
*=filename
Using SUSE 10.2 x64
The drive is labeled as /dev/sda1 but shows up in my computer tab /media/SCS10_VOL1

Here is a copy of my fstab:

/dev/hda3 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda4 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0


AMD Athlon 64x2 4200+, 2 gig Kinston Ram, Western Digital HD WD2500JB, MSI-7242 V 1.0 MB, ATI X1950 PCIE 256M, USB Seagate Ex 9Y7865-560

[devils casper]

SuSe doesn't support NTFS write access out of box. install ntfs-3g to enable NTFS write access. check here for instructions.

[Braz]

That explains that problem. I do appreciate the quick response. I should have discovered that since I can copy from the drive to my linux file system. Thank you for your patience.

[Braz]

Thanks! I was able to access my windows d drive and I just went ahead and converted my usb drive to linux native format. No problems atm. I appreciate
your assistance.

[Nightcat]

After following instructions provided by devils_casper, got the error message while trying to mount NTFS partition

WARNING:
Deficient Linux kernel detected. Some driver features are
not available (swap file on NTFS, boot from NTFS by LILO), and
unmount is not safe unless it's made sure the ntfs-3g process
naturally terminates after calling 'umount'. If you wish this
message to disappear then you should upgrade to at least kernel
version 2.6.20, or request help from your distribution to fix
the kernel problem. The below web page has more information:
NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver Support

I tried to go through there FAQ, but it doesn't quite make sence

[devils casper]

which kernel are you using right now?
post the output of 'uname -a' command.

[Nightcat]

Linux linux 2.6.13-15-default #1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux


Seems like this kernel needs updating, but I'm far from being able to do it. Where do I go looking for a new kernel?

[Nightcat]

OK. Found where to get Kernels from. Now fingers crossed