(1) Current media directory (see windows)
mitticus@mitticus:/media$ umount windows
mitticus@mitticus:/media$ ls -l
total 31
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    6 2005-12-07 14:10 cdrom -> cdrom0
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 2048 1970-01-01 01:00 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-12-28 15:56 ieee1394disk
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-12-24 09:44 sdb1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-02-06 16:04 sdd5
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-12-07 14:10 usb0
drwxrwxrwx  7 root root 4096 2006-02-07 09:38 usb1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-31 20:36 usbdisk
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 4096 2006-02-06 14:58 windows
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 1024 1970-01-01 01:00 xfer

** full access to windows for test purposes **

(2) Mount windows:

mitticus@mitticus:/media$ mount windows
mitticus@mitticus:/media$ ls -l
total 35
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    6 2005-12-07 14:10 cdrom -> cdrom0
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 2048 1970-01-01 01:00 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-12-28 15:56 ieee1394disk
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-12-24 09:44 sdb1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-02-06 16:04 sdd5
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-12-07 14:10 usb0
drwxrwxrwx  7 root root 4096 2006-02-07 09:38 usb1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-01-31 20:36 usbdisk
dr-x------  1 root root 8192 2006-02-04 20:12 windows
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 1024 1970-01-01 01:00 xfer

*** See? It has gone all root on me! ***

(3) fstab lines

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda2       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       2
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 user,auto       0       2
/dev/hda6       /media/xfer     auto    defaults        0       2
/dev/sdd5       /media/usb1     auto    user,auto       0       2
/dev/sda1       /media/windows  ntfs    users,exec,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0

*** all users should have access ***

(4) Question

What is happening here? "windows" was created using mkdir.

Why is it not accessible to all users after mounting? I tried google
but never found a solution to get it working : only people doing other
things or reformatting in ext2 or somesuch.


NB : if I "su" to root I can go into "windows" and "ls" etc to my
hearts content.

thanks for any help

--
Snow White's dwarfs become gnomes
-- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4349726.stm
The world has gone mad.

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*snip*

Found it : it was the ntfs specific option "umask".

/dev/sda1       /media/windows  ntfs    users,exec,umask=000,iocharset=iso88
59-1 0 0


thanks anway

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