Problem accessing mounted ntfs partitions

Hi,
I have problems accessing ntfs partitions as a non root user. The user trying to acces the partition is in usergroup wheel and has sudo acces.
/etc/fstab looks like this:
/dev/sda5 /media/winC ntfs defaults 0 2
/dev/sdb1 /media/winD ntfs defaults 0 2
It does not matter where I mount them (e.g. /home/user/media/winC), if i try cd-ing into the directory, it tells me:
cd /medi/winC
-bash: cd: /media/winC: Permission denied
When i try the following, it tells me:
sudo cd /medi/winC
sudo: cd: command not found
which I find a bit strange, but ok.
Any pointers what I am doing wrong? cd-ing as root works, but i would like to acces it as a normal user too. Using the following options did not work for me:
rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,users,async
mount -l tells me the following when using the options stated above:
/dev/sda5 on /media/winC type ntfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=0,gid=0,fmask=0177,dmask=077,nls=utf8,errors=continue,mtf_zone_multiplier=1)
Thanks for any pointers!

Trilby wrote:
You should use ntfs-3g instead of ntfs. I'm not sure if that will solve this problem, though it might, but it will prevent others.
As for "sudo cp" failing, that is not odd at all: `cd` is not a program, it is a shell builtin - there is no `cd` binary for sudo to execute.
Thanks for the explanation. I will try ntfs-3g as soon as I manage to connect to the internet again.

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## Entry for /dev/sdb1 SYSTEM:(Win7)
UUID=44083B9668A3E0CC /media/Win7 ntfs-3g gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002 0 0
I have been all over goggle & am unable to find out anything which can help.
As stated before I have links to this partition & so really want/need this partition to be mounted at boot.
Any help on this will be greatly appreciated
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EDIT #1
rebooted again, still the same happening
ran:
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proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=3022708k,nr_inodes=755677,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
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securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
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cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=30,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
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/dev/sdd1 on /media/Spare2 type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [spare2] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdc1 on /media/Spare type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [spare] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb2 on /media/VM type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [VM] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb3 on /var/wine type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [wine] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb4 on /var/cache/pacman type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [pac] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Win7 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096) [Win7-sys] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sda3 on /public type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [public] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sda5 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [Home] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0)
as you can see my partitions are being mounted TWICE which is not what I want or expected!
is there more documentation on what systemd does with mounts that could explain why i have multiple mount points for partitions or is this due to systemd discovering my partitions & mounting them at points based on label names & then parsing my FSTAB as well!
I have read the wikki but there is very small info there & the links have not provided an explanation for this unwanted behaviour
EDIT #2
>>>>>>>>>>>SOLVED<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
not an NTFS or FUSE issue
I had previously installed mnttools!
removed & now all is well
sorry
Last edited by t0m5k1 (2012-08-29 08:30:11)

OK,
After being spurred on to try to do this thing properly, this is what I came up with today.
My fstab line (for a USB NTFS disk):
/dev/sdb1 /media/samsung ntfs-3g noauto,users,rw,nodev 0 0
Then I created the /media/samsung folder and gave the audio group read/write permissions.
It seems that non-root users can only mount an ntfs partition if they use a version of ntfs-3g with fuse included, so I replaced ntfs-3g with the version from AUR, having removed from the PKGBUILD file the option "-with-fuse=external" (see this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44844 ). I also had to set
the ntfs-3g binary to setuid-root, dealt with here: http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g … privileged (note- the instructions say this is discouraged, but it seems using ntfs partitions in linux requires some compromises).
I can now mount the drive as an ordinary user.
Then I set mpd back to run as user mpd, checked the audio group had access to all the mpd folders, and all was well.
One hiccup which you might not have: mpd was unable to access my (external) sound card at first. To solve this one, I used
chmod 770 /dev/snd -R && chgrp audio /dev/snd -R
As far as I can remember, that's everything.
Last edited by Henry Flower (2010-04-20 12:54:26)

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