ntfs-config and external drive

[sm0k3r]

Hi,
I've problem with an external drive (usb drive with 3 NTFS partitions) , when I enable read-write option a message say only root can mount these partitions, not the same for an internal NTFS partition, just works fine.

How I can solve this?

[swerdna]

Hi,
I've problem with an external drive (usb drive with 3 NTFS partitions) , when I enable read-write option a message say only root can mount these partitions, not the same for an internal NTFS partition, just works fine.

How I can solve this?

If you're talking version 11.0 of Suse, you can add a link that causes external ntfs drives to automount read-write when they are plugged in. Are we talking version 11.0 of Suse?

[sm0k3r]

Yes sorry, openSUSE 11.0

[swerdna]

Yes sorry, openSUSE 11.0

In openSUSE 10.3 or 11.0 you execute a one-time setup command to create a link that replaces the normal driver for automounting ntfs (restricted permissions) with the ntfs-3g driver for automounting ntfs (world-writable). Thereafter when you plug in a usb drive with ntfs filesystem it will automount as world writeable with permissions drwxrwxrwx.
The one-time command is to open a terminal and enter this:

sudo ln -s /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs

That might help.

Swerdna

[sm0k3r]

done but don't work
when I plug in my external USB drive, just see the drive is plugged but don't open (only root can mount ecc...)

Need to reboot the machine?

[swerdna]

done but don't work
Need to reboot the machine?

Try it and see, I can't remember

[sm0k3r]

sorry, don't work too after reboot

[swerdna]

Please post back here the dialogue you get in a console when you execute this command:

ls -l /sbin/mou*

Thanks

[sm0k3r]

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27208 7 giu 01:59 /sbin/mount.cifs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10248 6 giu 23:10 /sbin/mount.fuse
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 82168 7 giu 00:50 /sbin/mount.nfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 26 giu 18:10 /sbin/mount.nfs4 -> mount.nfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 9 lug 23:41 /sbin/mount.ntfs -> /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 26 giu 18:10 /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g -> /bin/ntfs-3g

[oldcpu]

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 9 lug 23:41 /sbin/mount.ntfs -> /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g

What do you get from:
rpm -q libfuse2 ntfs-3g