help with linux reading windows partition

[XST1]

I compiled the kernel with NTFS write/read support. My fstab looks like this:

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.14 2003/10/13 20:03:38 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency).  It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to 
# switch between notail and tail freely.

# <fs>          	<mountpoint>    <type>  	<opts>      		<dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sda2		/boot		reiserfs	noauto,noatime		1 2
/dev/sda4		/		reiserfs	noatime,notail		0 1
/dev/sda3		none		swap		sw			0 0
/dev/sda1		/mnt/windows    auto		user			0 0		0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0	/mnt/cdrom0	auto		noauto,ro,user		0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1	/mnt/cdrom1	auto		noauto,ro,user		0 0
/dev/fd0		/mnt/floppy	auto		noauto,user		0 0

# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none			/proc		proc		defaults		0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). 
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
#  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:

none			/dev/shm	tmpfs		defaults		0 0

When i do a kdesu on konqueror I am able to see all the files that are on my windows partition. However, when I go to copy them over to my desktop for example: I get the following error:
"The file or folder /mnt/windows/****** does not exist." Any idea on what I did wrong?

Note: It works when I go into console, type su and make a direct copy from there. Must be a problem with konqueror?

[MaxPolun]

I'm not sure but it sounds like you might have permissions issues. do an

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ls -l /mnt/

you might have messed up permissions, and konqurer is just giving you bad errors. It might be konqurer, though. I don't use kde.

[bet1m]

same here, never repaired, but I dont have so much contact with windows

[lotw]

Note: It works when I go into console, type su and make a direct copy from there. Must be a problem with konqueror?

Have you tried doing a filemanager super user mode as see if that works? It could be that your user account isn't getting the permissions right and the su command is logging on as root. If that is the case try adding after the user on your windows fstab ,rw or ,ro (rw=read/write, ro=read only). Example below:

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/dev/sda1      /mnt/windows    auto      user,rw         0 0

[XST1]

Yes, I managed to get it working in Konqueror with super user mode. Now I have a different issue. It turns out that I can copy data from /mnt/windows to anywhere else, but I can't copy or write data to /mnt/windows, even in root mode. Any ideas on that?

[MaxPolun]

It might be mounted read only, the write support is pretty poor even now. I think it is only garunteed to not corrupt your filesystem if you only change files, and do not change their size. copying stuff to ntfs is still tricky, so be careful.

[lotw]

Yes, I managed to get it working in Konqueror with super user mode. Now I have a different issue. It turns out that I can copy data from /mnt/windows to anywhere else, but I can't copy or write data to /mnt/windows, even in root mode. Any ideas on that?

You must specify ,rw after the users to allow writting, if it is NTFS you also must have write support turned on in the kernel, but it is experimental.