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[Philip]

Huh?

What?

[windhound]

*grin*

[Philip]

*grin*

I've never heard a response quite like that before.

[The Beatles]

Actually, the reason you can't change permissions is that NTFS /doesn't/ support permissions. XD
In other words, and I found this out the really hard way, you have to put a line in your /etc/fstab like:

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/dev/hda1      /mnt/win_c          ntfs           defaults,user,uid=<YOUR-USER-ID>,umask=000         0 0

or

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/dev/hda1      /mnt/win_c          ntfs           defaults,user,gid=<YOUR-GROUP-ID>,umask=000         0 0

For a good tutorial on umask, which sets the permissions at mount time, I found this a couple of days ago...

[The Beatles]

That umask, I believe, makes everything use your default umask, in other words, the permissions assigned to newly created files by you. However, if you want something different, then the man page for mount is appropriate:

(and sorry, I know it really sounds bad to say "if you want to do something read the man page", but I really don't know how to say more... if you don't want too fine-grained permissions, the umask=000 should be perfectly fine)

Oh, since it might be read-only, you might want to append ",ro" to the above line...

[windhound]

aah.. that was it, thanks!

[The Beatles]

It took me hours of hair-pulling to get that one. I tried changing the permissions of the mount point and stuff, to no avail. In the end, a google search helped me.