gaining permissions for windows

Hi

How to gain the necessary permission to transfer files from my opensuse drive to my Windows drive. I can access the windows drive and call up files from it, but I cannot save file to it. I have looked at the permissions on the Windows folder but one is not able to change them. I have just changed from Mint linux and one could do this with no problems, can anyone help?

FSTAB - Editing Manually - openSUSE Forums

If you can’t figure it out from that, post result of

cat /etc/fstab

Edit the file fstab and find the entries that look like this:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000BEVT-60ZAT1_WD-WXN509S27952-part1 /windows/C           ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8     0 0

and change them to look like this:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000BEVT-60ZAT1_WD-WXN509S27952-part1 /windows/C           ntfs-3g    defaults     0 0

The key thing being to change all the options like these:

users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8

to the single word

defaults

Reference: HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11

Caf

Here are the results

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3808110AS_5LR0RFTW-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3808110AS_5LR0RFTW-part6 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3808110AS_5LR0RFTW-part7 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3808110AS_5LR0N72P-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

Please bear in mind I am not at all an expert. In fact I had been using Ubuntu because it did not demand any knowhow. I have come back to suse after many years (it was my first linux) because ubuntu 9.10 is a disaster, it does not lead a desktop: so much for being the choice for the newbie.

Done like this:
Hit Alt-F2
in the box type: kdesu ‘kwrite /etc/fstab’
Enter rootpassword when asked for.
You’ll find yourself in a wordpad like editor.
Change the line:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3808110AS_5LR0N72P-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.U TF-8 0 0

to:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3808110AS_5LR0N72P-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Click the Save button, reboot and you will be able to write to your windu disk

Follow the advice given above by @Knurpht

Dear Knurpht

Worked like a treat. Had to adjust for using gnome and emacs but that was all. Thanks a million.
I can ask why opensuse does not do this automatically, like Ubuntu does?
Thanks Caf and Swerdna for you help. I am very impressed with the support on these forums.

Allowing write to NTFS by default is generally not a good idea, especially to a windows installation. I guess openSUSE just errs on the side of caution.
There maybe other reasons.

caf4926, swerdna, Knurpht.

Each one of your post made it clear an easy. I can write to my windows partitions now.

Thank you.

Good news. :wink: