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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

HAL doesn't let regular users browse NTFS drives

If I plug a USB hard drive into my computer that is using an NTFS filesystem, I get a dialog box saying "Failed to open directory "disk-1".  Permission denied."  Most of the time with flash drives and the like, I plug it in and it just works (wowee!).  But in this case, it's getting its unix on.  I haven't messed with the fstab if that's what I have to dink with.  What can I do to allow a regular user read and write to NTFS drives via HAL?

scarecrow

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From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: HAL doesn't let regular users browse NTFS drives

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL
Checkout the section "Automount NTFS filesystems with write support (ntfs-3g)". It works fine for me.

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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: HAL doesn't let regular users browse NTFS drives

Did you use the policy or the workaround?  Thanks for your reply!

Last edited by synthead (2008-02-03 01:22:33)

scarecrow

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From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: HAL doesn't let regular users browse NTFS drives

I use both the policy rule and the mount.ntfs-3g workaround, as I have many files with greek characters on my removable NTFS volumes- and without the workaround they are invisible (despite the fact that the system default is el_GR.UTF8).
I didn't need to apply the "ln -s /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs" workaround, as I had no issues (using a fairly standard kernel26).

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ichbinesderelch

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Registered: 2008-01-17

Posts: 203

Re: HAL doesn't let regular users browse NTFS drives

is your user in "storage" group? had same problem and fix it by that