user access to ntfs partitions

[amazon10x]

I have a few NTFS partitions that I want regular users to be able to access from linux. I'm running Debian 4.0 and my fstab is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdc1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hdc5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hda1       /mnt/win_winxp  ntfs    ro,user,auto    0       0
/dev/hda2       /mnt/win_data2  ntfs    ro,user,auto    0       0
#/dev/hda5      /mnt/win_data   ntfs    ro,user,auto    0       0
/dev/hda5       /mnt/win_data   ntfs    defaults        0       0

If I try to list the contents of /mnt/win_* it says permission denied, but it works fine as root.

How do I make the partitions accessible by users?

 

[MRD]

Are the mount points themselves set to 777?

 

[amazon10x]

Should I unmount before chmodding?

EDIT: Tried chmod 777 when it is mounted and it says

chmod: changing permissions of `win_data2': Read-only file system

. If I do it while unmounted it changes it but when I mount it resets the permission back to 500

 

[pejsaboy]

I had a similar problem when trying to mount my ntfs partitions to get to my music. They're working now... but I'm really not sure how I got it to stick. I'm interested in the proper way to get that setup as well.

 

[MRD]

Add the option in your fstab umask=000 and remount.

You still won't have write access to ntfs, because the kernel doesn't support it (well, it supports limited writes). You should have read/execute though.

 

[kel_p]

write support..
http://technowizah.com/2006/11/debian-how-to-writing-to-ntfs.html