-----Original Message----- From: Ryan Biltz [mailto:rbiltz@ncmir.ucsd.edu] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:07 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] only root can access NTFS removable media?? Hello All, I was happy to see that NTFS is supported out of the box with SuSE 9.3. However it seems only root is able to access the file system. I plugged in an external USB HD (NTFS) of mine while logged in as a normal user. The removable media icon showed up on the file browser but when i click to open and explore within it gave me an access denied error. When I log in as root I am able to browse and access the files. Also I am unable to modify any of the files or write new ones. Acts like a CD. I know there is no Write support for NTFS yet but I was hoping to at least have the ability to read my files as a normal user and not have to be root to access them. Is there a way to do this? Thanks for any Info. -ryan Ryan, You should only mount NTFS read-only for now. Go here to learn more: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html Towards the bottom of the FAQ are links to projects that are attempting NTFS read/write, but this is dangerous for the filesystem (work in progress), use at own risk. A better recommendation, format the external drive as FAT32 instead if you don't need NTFS for anything since Windows and Linux can both read/write FAT32. As for mounting the NTFS for normal users: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#4.10 You'll need to make some changes to the partition name that they use since you're mounting it as usb and not hda1 per their examples. Here is what is in my /etc/fstab for my ntfs partition: /dev/hda1 /windows ntfs ro,umask=0222,noauto,user,exec 0 0 John