This was actually recently discussed here. Use this line: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,auto,users,umask=0000
Alfonso Lopez B.S. Computer Science: University of Texas at Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.utacm.org/~lebouf Cell: 512-680-9210 On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Travis Swanson wrote: > Hello all: > > > I was playing around with fstab and i was wondering if i could mount a NTFS > partition such that non root users could read from it. here's the line that i came > up with: > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows user,ro 1 1 > > > Using this line i'm able to mount the partition as root, and there is an icon on > my non root user desktop for this partition, but i am not able to access it. > "permission denied". I'm wondering if im not using the fstab commands right, or if > this is just a built in security feature with kernel 2.4.8. I realise that reading a > NTFS partition isnt the most stable thing to do in linux and that you might not want > to allow all users to use it. But if im not writing the fstab line correctly, please > gimme a hint, im such a linux noob, im helpless. thanks for your time. > > > Travis Swanson > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux > _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
