can't access NTFS partitions, please help

Hi,

just installed Ubuntu on my pc. It's a dual boot system and according to the tutorials I've correctly mounted my 3 NTFS WinXP partitions. I can see them, but can't access them. The error message displayed says that I can't get permission to view the files because I'm not the owner. What do I do now?

Hope that someone can help and sorry, if this is a silly question.

Can you post the contents of the file /etc/fstab ?

Can you post the contents of the file /etc/fstab ?

This should be it:

/etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda1 /windows ntfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda10 /windows1 vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 /windows2 ntfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /windows3 ntfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

This should be it:

/etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda1 /windows ntfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda10 /windows1 vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 /windows2 ntfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /windows3 ntfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 You don't want you NTFS mounting options to be *default*. Use this line instead ``` /dev/hda1 /windows ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

sudo umount /windows
sudo umount /windows2
sudo umount /windows3

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup

sudo nano /etc/fstab

sudo mount -a

That did it! Thanks for your help!:KS