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emerge ntfs3g |
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should solve your woes |
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Paul Stear <gentoo@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I thought I had cracked my problem of writing to a usb external ntfs HD, |
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> but I |
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> was wrong. Let me pose the problem and hopefully somebody out there will |
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> be |
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> able to set me straight. |
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> I have mp3 files on an internal HD in my gentoo box. I back this up to an |
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> external usb HD formated for ext2 - no problems. |
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> I have now bought another external HD which I want to copy my mp3's to and |
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> be |
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> able to play them when the external HD is plugged into a vista machine. |
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> So the HD is formated with ntfs and works with vista but when I plug it |
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> into |
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> gentoo and mount either automatically or manually I can not write to the |
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> disk. I just get an error message as a user -- "Unable to enter |
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> file:///mnt/external. You do not have access rights to this location." |
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> As root the permissions seem to be correct user=root,Group=root,Owner Can |
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> View |
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> & Modify Content but if I try as user to create a folder I get "Could not |
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> make folder /mnt/external/New Folder." message. |
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> So the question is:- How do I get an external usb disk to be writable on |
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> gentoo and vista? |
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> Thanks for any help |
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> Paul |
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> -- |
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> This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux |
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