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brando56894

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From: New Jersey, USA

Registered: 2008-08-03

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[Solved] Denied Access to NTFS volumes

whenever i try to read NTFS volumes it says that I dont have the correct permissions to access them, they are accessable via the root account though. i have ntfs-3g installed and here are the lines from my fstab

/dev/sdb1 /media/media ntfs defaults,users  0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs defaults,users  0 0

Last edited by brando56894 (2008-08-24 04:40:39)

kett

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Registered: 2008-04-21

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Re: [Solved] Denied Access to NTFS volumes

Change ntfs to ntfs-3g in /etc/fstab to use it.

ladislaio

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From: Greenville, Pennsylvania

Registered: 2007-09-22

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Re: [Solved] Denied Access to NTFS volumes

kett is correct that you should use ntfs-3g instead of ntfs, although I am not sure what ntfs points to (they may be the same thing, since you can read it as root)

A possible problem you may be having here is that the permissions of these drives is not properly flagged.  You can fix this by adding a uid option to the options

/dev/sdb1 /media/media ntfs-3g defaults,users,uid=1000,gid=100  0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults,users,uid=1000,gid=100  0 0

That *should* fix it if your uid is 1000

if you do not know your uid, you can get it by running, in the terminal as the user you want to access the files as,

id -u $USER

The wiki page on this is
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support

Hope that helps.

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brando56894

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Re: [Solved] Denied Access to NTFS volumes

sweet, i tried adding a umask and groupid that was in my linux mint fstab but that didnt work, what you guys suggested works, thanks.