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?
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:
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.