In dire need of help with NTFS support!

[Guess_Who]

Well, I am trying to access my NTFS formatted partition with all of my Windows files.

I am a newbie, but have started to get the hang of things, and can acomplish most goals... except for this one!

On my system, uname -a returns this:
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 #1 Fri Jul 15 00:52:32 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

i have edited /etc/fstab to include my NTFS partition, and now hdc1 shows up as an unmounted drive.

I tried installing ntfs kernel modules, but i didnt know what I was doing, so I uninstalled everything I tried.

I need some help on determining what .rpm i need to download, and how I should go about installing it.

Thank you. I need to go to bed, I'll check this post in the morning!

[sigtom]

Google for ntfs kernel module and all shall be revealed.

[Guess_Who]

YAY!! I GOT IT MOUNTED!!! Turns out I didn't uninstall the driver correctly, and I had the i586 version running when I needed the i686 version! The only problem now is that when I try to open the NTFS partition, Konqueror gives me an error saying:

Could not enter folder /media/Windows.

Which is the folder its mounted to. Do I just need to set its permissions so I can view it without being root?

Well, I'll try that.

(so much for going to bed! lol)

[Guess_Who]

Well, I have it mounted, and I created a nifty link that when double clicked on desktop asks me for the root password, then opens the NTFS partition using konqueror!

It's ashame I can't write to it. is there anyway to make it writable?

[markkuk]

No, writing to NTFS isn't really supported with the Linux drivers. In theory, you can enable overwriting existing files but that's not very useful in practise. You could try the Captive (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/) project software if you really need NTFS write support.

[komi]

Yes, captive is great.
But it doesn't run (out of the box) with kernels equals and hight than version 2.6.10.
See the capive mailing list:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/pipermail/captive-list/2004-December/000646.html

regards