Vista Permissions

[jmadero]

Hi All,
I'm working on my girlfriends machine and I'm coming across permission problems on her Vista boot (dual booting with Intrepid). Because Vista is such a beast I just made that partition huge and then Ubuntu a small one, thinking I would just write to the Vista partition for everything.

I can make new folders in her user but I cannot write into her "My Documents" "My Pictures" etc...

I'd like to be able to so that I can store all of her music and pictures in the spot that when/if she ever boots into Vista again she can do the whole "start, my pictures...etc..."

Unfortunately I kind of screwed up her Vista boot last night (gparted....why does Vista use those stupid unallocated sections?) so if I can fix it without having to boot into Vista that would be nice (I tried sudo chmod and it didn't change anything).

I will be fixing the Vista boot at some point (she only boots into it about 3 times a year but isn't ready to completely abandon it), but didn't want to spend hours tonight dealing with a microsoft system, it's rarely easy when it comes to Windows.

Thanks all

[HROAdmin26]

Mount the NTFS partitions with the umask=0 option.

[jmadero]

that's already done. It's only the user folders created in Vista that I don't have permissions to. I can write to the desktop of Vista, as well as any folders outside of My Videos, My Pictures, My Music and My Documents

[HROAdmin26]

The NTFS permissions are not used when mounted in Linux, so if you have already used umask=0, then this isn't a file permission issue.

Have you looked at the ls -al output and confirmed RWX permission for Owner/Group/Other?

Are you using the NTFS-3G driver for NTFS?

What path are you writing to under the Windows partition? Is it a "real" path or is there a Windows "shortcut" involved?

What is the error message? Is anything logged in /var/log/messages?

[jmadero]

permissions say

drwxrwx---

I am using the NTFS that comes with Ubuntu 8.10 natively, I believe it is the 3g one

it is a direct path

error when trying to create a folder inside of one of the listed folders:

Error creating directory: Operation not supported

[D-cat]

Is it possible that these folders have been compressed or encrypted by Vista? I imagine either one would give Linux a raspberry.

[jmadero]

I was thinking that also. It's always good to see Microsoft making EVERYTHING impossible. Can't even get write permissions in a dual boot....oh well, since she never uses Vista I just made folders right next to the "My Pictures, My Videos" called "Pictures, Videos, etc..." lol. They have full write permissions, the only thing is in Vista she won't be able to do what I was looking for. I'll put a shortcut to the folders inside of the others ones when I get back into Vista.....how lame