[Discuss] accessing NTFS partition

[stanfish]

Lloyd Budd wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2008 9:56 PM, stanfish <stanfish at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Hi Stan,
> 
> I haven't had to play with this yet, but this is one of the things
> that I was happy to hear was in the recent Ubuntu. As it isn't highly
> publicized I suspect that people aren't highly confident that it is
> stable and robust.
> 
> I just tried it and it both read and write of NTFS from Vista work on
> my very vanilla Ubuntu 7.10 without installing any other packages --
> although it is slow. All I had to do was go to Places > Computer and
> double click on the disk to mount it. It seems that it is the ntfs-3g
> package that is making this possible.

Thanks,
True the Places/Computer brings up all the partitions including the 
NTFS. Clicking on the NTFS partition displays the folders, but clicking 
the folders doesn't seem to work for me... even as 'open as root' I 
cannot get a display of the folder contents. Altho I am not sure if I am 
truly 'root' because I am not asked for a password. Does this imply a 
'privileges' issue? If so how can this be dealt with?

Stan Fisher




> 
> Please let us know how it goes,
> Lloyd
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