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HyperBaton

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-01-18

Posts: 207

[headless fileserver] No write permission on external NTFS hard drive

I have a Arch Linux fileserver here without monitor or inputs. I only access it through SSH, so there is no desktop environment on it, pure CLI. I have an external USB NTFS hard drive which I am auto mounting using autofs. The mountpoint is also shared using Samba.

Basically, I cannot write anything to this hard drive. Mounting works just fine, reading is no problem using a root or non-root account, even using Samba.
When I try to write, I just get this:

touch: cannot touch `lala': Permission denied

I know I have solved things like this before, but this time I have no idea what the problem might be.

Here is my auto.media autofs configuration file:

elements -fstype=ntfs,uid=hb,gid=hb,fmask=0137,dmask=0027 UUID="B5AB1A6BCAF2C74C"

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Last edited by HyperBaton (2008-08-12 18:41:47)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: [headless fileserver] No write permission on external NTFS hard drive

writting on ntfs is possible only with ntfs-3g

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HyperBaton

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-01-18

Posts: 207

Re: [headless fileserver] No write permission on external NTFS hard drive

Well now, why don't I ever think of simple solutions first... That did the trick. I was so sure ntfs-3g was part of the kernel already. Guess not! Thanks a bunch!