NTFS issue

[Gordon R. Keehn]

Martín Marqués wrote:
> El Jue 30 Jun 2005 16:50, Yogen Mankikar escribió:
> 
>>Thanks for the help guys,
>>Just FYI, adding "user" option to fstab did not work but "umask=000" did 
>>work.
> 
> 
> Sorry, but you have to have done something wrong. Putting user in the optios 
> IS the way to deal with this. Check my vfat windows partition that I'm 
> mounting as a normal user:
> 

Hi, Guys
   I think someone is confusing "user" (which allows a user to MOUNT the 
device) and "umask=000" (which controls the default permissions for new 
files and folders).  I have had problems with USER, myself (e.g. on a 
USB ZIP drive), so I bagged it and SU to mount a disk.  I have never run 
into problems accessing a drive as a user once it has been mounted. 
IMHO "umask=000" is NOT a goodness, since it means that new files or 
folders will be created with an access mask of 777.
    Cheers,
Gordon Keehn