hi everyone. im new to opensuse 12.1. 
i can’t cut from, or paste to, a second ntfs drive i have. when i right-click on a file/folder in the drive, and click ‘permissions’, it says ‘user: root’ and ‘group: users’. can someone tell me how i can get permission to use this drive, or how to change the permissions? do i have to make myself an administrator or something?
You did not mention how this NTFS partition is being mounted, but indeed if the file was created by root, normally you must be root to remove or move it. Some have found that if you mount the ntfs partition from your fstab file, that changing the mount options to say just defaults, will allow any user to modify its files, if that is what you want to do. You must edit the fstab file to make such a change:
In KDE do **Alt-F2** and enter: **kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab**
in GNOME do **Alt-F2** and enter: **gnomesu gedit /etc/fstab**
Here is a portion from my fstab file with the change I suggest in bold. Your entry will not be the same as mine, but the suggested change will be the same:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31000528AS_9VP1AEZJ-part1 /Software ntfs-3g **defaults** 0 0
Thank You,