Here’s the situation…
I’m using openSUSE 12.1 KDE, with a dual-boot to WinXP. I’m also fairly new to linux, so I need some hand holding here, please. :oops:
I have a partition on the hard drive called “shared”. It is where I put files I want to access from both OSs. The “shared” volume mounts each time I restart automatically, but I can’t modify any files. FWIW, I was using LinuxMint 10 KDE till a couple weeks ago and was able to access the files just fine then. So something is different between the two linux distributions.
I’ve been trying to make heads or tails of this thread How to Auto Mount HDDs? It looks like the answer is in there.
chris@linux-wk9r:~> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDS721010CLA332_JP6921HD18J62M-part7 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=825d7d37-5262-4538-b153-354788168a2b / ext4 errors=remount-ro 1 1
UUID=9c0e30ee-2633-4436-bed6-cd00ae4035ce /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=9eb3e86c-56b9-48fe-a180-b581726facac /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
**/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0-part6 /shared ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0**
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
If I read the thread properly, my issue is with some portion of the portion “user,users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0”. If I’m guessing correctly, then I simply edit the file and put in “defaults” instead?
I’d rather ask the question first, and get some confirmation, before potentially hosing my system up on something I am admittedly only guessing at. If I’m wrong of course, please tell me. You’re the experts. 
Chris