mounting problem

[Zarthul]

I am tring to access an ntfs partition as a user, I have it set so that the mount point is /mnt/windows...I have figured out how to get it so that I can mount it as a user but then after it is mounted I can't enter the directory...I get an error that says "Could not Enter directory /mnt/windows" or "You do not have enough permission to read Fiel:/mnt/windows"

I know that it is a permision problem but I can't seem to find exactly where and what I have to change the permission on.

Any insight would be help full

I have already entered what I needed into fstab but I am not sure if I got that right either.
:confused:

[bdg1983]

Could you post the contents of /etc/fstab and what mount command you are trying?

It would help us to know what you have tried and if any changes are necessary to fstab.

[Nekopa]

Also can you acces the drive as root? If you can then maybe you have to change the permissions of /dev/<hd with NT on it>

Lee

[Zarthul]

Thank you Nekopa that is what I think my problem is.

[Zarthul]

ok I have chnged that but that didn't help
what I found is that while I have the device mounted to /mnt/windows the permission is dr-x------ but while it is unmounted the permission is drwxr-xr-x....I know what everything means I am just not sure how to change it cause when I try while it is mounted i get the error that it is read-only?

[Zarthul]

as for the line I added to fstab it is:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs user,noauto,exec,suid,async,rw 0 0

[Linuxcool]

I see by your fstab entry that you have the partition set to read/write. I didn't think that you could write to an ntfs partition. Let's try simplifying your fstab entry.

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs user,noauto 0 0

See if that makes a difference.