[Discuss] accessing NTFS partition

[stanfish]

I have just installed Kubuntu as  dual boot with Vista. I am unable to 
access the NTFS partitions. Most of the references in the Kubuntu/Ubuntu 
and Debian forums date from 2006 and seem quite complicated. I thought 
that read/write capability would be an out of the box function by now. 
Knoppix, which I have tried does so. Is there something that I've missed 
in the installation? Can any of the Kubuntu/Ubuntu users point me to a 
solution. I have Kubuntu 7.10 installed.
Thanks,
Stan Fisher