I thought I had cracked my problem of writing to a usb external ntfs HD, but I was wrong. Let me pose the problem and hopefully somebody out there will be able to set me straight. I have mp3 files on an internal HD in my gentoo box. I back this up to an external usb HD formated for ext2 - no problems. I have now bought another external HD which I want to copy my mp3's to and be able to play them when the external HD is plugged into a vista machine. So the HD is formated with ntfs and works with vista but when I plug it into gentoo and mount either automatically or manually I can not write to the disk. I just get an error message as a user -- "Unable to enter file:///mnt/external. You do not have access rights to this location." As root the permissions seem to be correct user=root,Group=root,Owner Can View & Modify Content but if I try as user to create a folder I get "Could not make folder /mnt/external/New Folder." message.
So the question is:- How do I get an external usb disk to be writable on gentoo and vista? Thanks for any help Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux
