emerge ntfs3g should solve your woes
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Paul Stear <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought I had cracked my problem of writing to a usb external ntfs HD, > but I > was wrong. Let me pose the problem and hopefully somebody out there will > be > able to set me straight. > I have mp3 files on an internal HD in my gentoo box. I back this up to an > external usb HD formated for ext2 - no problems. > I have now bought another external HD which I want to copy my mp3's to and > be > able to play them when the external HD is plugged into a vista machine. > So the HD is formated with ntfs and works with vista but when I plug it > into > gentoo and mount either automatically or manually I can not write to the > disk. I just get an error message as a user -- "Unable to enter > file:///mnt/external. You do not have access rights to this location." > As root the permissions seem to be correct user=root,Group=root,Owner Can > View > & Modify Content but if I try as user to create a folder I get "Could not > make folder /mnt/external/New Folder." message. > > So the question is:- How do I get an external usb disk to be writable on > gentoo and vista? > > Thanks for any help > Paul > -- > This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux > >
