Windows partition permissions problem

i have a fat32 partition that i use to be able to see files whenever i'm on windows or linux. my fstab is as follow:
/dev/discs/disc0/part4 /mnt/windows vfat rw,user,auto 0 0
but if i do
[nbcjr@universo ~]$ touch /mnt/windows/lin
touch: cannot touch `/mnt/windows/lin': Permission denied
what's going on?? how do i set this partition to be mounted automatically and to permit any user (or at least my main user) to write any file on it???
thanks!

hi!
i also have a ntfs partition that sometimes i want to get something from. i mount it as read only, but only root has permission to acess it. i don't know how to solve this.
fstab
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
windows is my fat partition, ntfs is the ntfs one.
[nbcjr@universo mnt]$ ls -lah
total 42K
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 248 2005-09-20 02:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 464 2005-09-18 23:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-06-17 02:43 captive-noname
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2.0K 2005-09-30 12:07 cd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-08-24 17:58 dvd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-08-24 17:58 fl
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-06-22 22:00 floppy
dr-x------ 1 root root 8.0K 2005-09-21 23:39 ntfs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-09-20 02:15 usb
drwxr-xr-x 9 nbcjr root 32K 1969-12-31 21:00 windows
even after
[root@universo nbcjr]# chmod 755 /mnt/ntfs/
chmod: changing permissions of `/mnt/ntfs/': Read-only file system
it stays like that. thanks a lot!

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