Unable to write to NTFS HD as user

[jimmy2975]

HI,

I have an external HD. It is partitioned at NTFS in windwos and I use FC8 and use ntfs-3g

fdisk -l is
/dev/sdc1 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS

ls -l as user shows

drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-01-31 10:19 back_up
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2008-01-27 09:12 Data
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-01-20 18:29 laptop_01202008
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-01-31 07:50 mm
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-01-29 13:47 System Volume Information
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-01-31 19:27 unison-folderB

The drive mount prpoperly but I cant write to it as user. I can only wrtote to it as root.
My fstab is
/dev/sdc1 /media/my_book ntfs-3g rw,dmask=000,fmask=000 0 0

I have also tried defaults,umask=000 0 0

I have also tried chmod 777 /media/my_book.

Please help. Any comments/suggestions are appreciated

Thanks
Jimmy

[stoat]

Try it this way...

/dev/sdc1   /media/my_book   ntfs-3g   user,umask=0000 0 0

The default vis-a-vis user/nouser is nouser.

[jimmy2975]

No juice mate!

THis is really not making sense to me.

Any ideas?

thanks
jimmy

[stevea]

What are the perms/owns of the DIRECTORY those files are in ?

Can you show a nexample of the failure.

As a user "echo foo > ...../foobar"

[jimmy2975]

If this is what you mean.

[jimmy@linuxhome ~]$ echo foo > /media/my_book/foobar
[jimmy@linuxhome ~]$

Jimmy

[jimmy2975]

when I right click on the drive an dchoose permissions it says
owner=root
group=root

How do I change the owner and gropu to user?

THnaks
Jimmy

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by jimmy2975

when I right click on the drive an dchoose permissions it says
owner=root
group=root

How do I change the owner and gropu to user?

THnaks
Jimmy

Try

su
chown  jimmy:jimmy  /media/my_book

[jimmy2975]

I did that and to no avail.

I also tried chgrp and althiugh it said it changed the group the permissions tab says it belongs to root

JImmy

[Magnar]

Originally Posted by jimmy2975

If this is what you mean.

[jimmy@linuxhome ~]$ echo foo > /media/my_book/foobar
[jimmy@linuxhome ~]$

Jimmy

Shouldn't you get an error here if you're not allowed to write?

[jimmy2975]

YES, there should be an error if I am not able to write. And it does write it properly. For some other reasons (maybe) the Unison (file sync program) says permission denied when I write to it as user. Anyway I have reformatted it as fat32 now.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions everyone !

Jimmy