Write Permission When Automount Usb Ntfs Drives

I recently bought a WD external hard drive for storing file of several types. Using gparted I made two partitions, one ntfs for windows files and an ext 4 for linux files. Strangely, I have complete access to ntfs partition from linux side of duel boot system, but do not have permission to access ext4 partition. My root password does not work when I use su to gain root access. It works fine on built in hard drive.

I have a Toshiba Laptop that had a Dual Boot of Windows 7 and Linux Mint 17 on it and both OS's worked fine. I've been wanting to use CentOS 7 as my primary OS so that I can become more familar with RPM management and proceeded to remove my Mint installation and replace it with the CENTOS 7 installation, and the install completed successfully. HOWEVER, here's my problem.....

When my laptop starts up, I don't see GRUB nor do I have any option of selecting whether to run Windows or CentOS. It automatically loads up Centos 7. When I do a 'sudo fdisk -l', I can see that SDA1 is an NTFS drive, and when I try the following 'sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/Main\ Drive' I get an error message saying that I can't mount an NTFS drive.

Am I missing something or is there a way to access my Windows files from within Centos. I was able to do this with Mint without an issue, but unable to see any of my windows drives because I can't mount an NTFS drive.

I have no problem with keeping CENTOS as my only OS on this laptop, however, I do need to access the files from the Window's partition, and if anyone can help me to access my files, that would be totally awesome.

Thank you in advance for reading through this and for any help offered.....

Mikey

Hello Everyone
I have installed Ubuntu Server on a 500 GB drive formatted as EXT4.

Of of my Media, movies, music and pictures are from Windows PC's formatted in NTFS.
As all of the computers connecting to the server will be windows based will NTFS be fine or will I have to reformat them to work. The two media drives are 2 x 2GB Sata drives.
Could you tell me if this setup would work or will I have to reformat and and transfer the files to a new filesystem.
Also as a file server whats the best linux file system to use so it will work with windows PC's in a lan flawlessly.
Thanks for you expertise.
Regards

Dear All,

I am using OLE 6.2, 32 bit. Today I was trying to open the other drives (windows C drive and external drive both are ntfs), when I tried to open it, I go the following error

Error mounting: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

Please advise how can I fix it, I did a google search but since I am new I am unable to understand what I should really do. Sept by Sept advise would be of great help.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Suresh Panchanathan

Hello!

I'm setting up my second homeserver and i'm trying a better/safer approach this time.

My last box ran centOS6.5, Plexmediaserver (ntfs mounted drives) ; Samba , znc , ftp & ssh.
Now this machine was perfect still works like a charm. But i want to do things better this time.

So i got an old server HP Proliant ml350 G5 for a buck. I've finally dared to format 3x 2tb drives as Ext4 and have them running in a software RAID 5. (bye bye NTFS)

Now since my parents will also be using this server as backup and fileserver, i need some permissions in my sambashares.

So i've set up a directory at /sambashares and gave Thomas ownership of it.
but now the rest

So what i'm struggling with:

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User Thomas needs to have read/write/execute access to the whole /sambashares dir
(including Patrick & Nane's files)

Patrick needs read/write/execute access to /sambashares/Patrick & /sambashares/"NewItemsHere"
Patrick needs read access in Movies / TvShows
Patrick may not see the data of Thomas or Nane

Nane needs read/write/execute access to /sambashares/Nane & /sambashares/"NewItemsHere"
Nane needs read access in Movies / TvShows
Nane may not see the data of Thomas or Patrick

I already added 2 groups (admins & pheasants)
Thomas is in the admin group.
Nane and Patrick are in Pheasants




Note: If i recall correctly PlexMediaserver needs ownership of the movie files and Tv Shows for it to function correctly.
(not sure about that, might have been a requirement with mounted NTFS drives)

Time is not on my side, i'm at the end of my CCNA certification and my brain is overloaded with routing commands due to exams coming soon! So if anyone could help me on the way with some keystrokes, that would be great.

Cheers!
Thomas

I own a NAS D-Link DNS-320 running fun_plug 0.7 & transmissionBT.

I just bought a Transcend 2.5 inch 2TB USB HDD which is preformatted to NTFS.

Just wondering whether my NAS(linux) can write to my USB HDD for a reliable storage for transmissionBT.

Otherwise, if writing to NTFS is unstable in linux, how should I format my USB HDD. I know I could format as FAT32... but FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit.
Is it possible to format USB HDD as ext3 (linux file system)... and still compatible/read/write by Windows XP/7/8?

I tried adding two users in apache group and given 775 permission to Document root but user is not able to write into files in DocumentRoot

Tried adding user and DocumentRoot Folder in sudo file but not able to do it recursively

please help


Thanks for reply,
I have already given chmod 775 -R DocumentRoot - for recursively writting permission
You have told to add user in www-data group and chmod 775 -R to DocumentRoot
usermod -a -G www-data <user1>

How can users in www-data can able to write in DocumentRoot which has apache:apache owner and group
please clarify...

Done below steps to solve this:
1) I have created a new group webdata and added required users in this group
2) set sticky bit to document root with below command
setfacl -m g:webdata:rwx -R /path/to/documentroot/
this command will set rwx permission to DocumentRoot so that members in webdata can have full access but still DocumentRoot user and group will be apache

Changing umask value for files and directories take effect after reload:
/etc/profile
/etc/bashrc
default permission for all users:
-rw-r--r--
above permission is edited to:
-rw-rw-r--
If a specific user in group having only read permission to a file/directory is created before reload,and Linux server reloads, that user gets rw permission to that file/directory. what is the alternative of securing:
/etc/profile
/etc/bashrc
apart from giving the two files access to root user only, and locking out all other users?

Hi everyone,

I created a fuse mountpoint. After mounting, the file permissions are all screwed up and it says I cannot ls or cd. Permission denied.

The file permissions look like this:
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? temp

and when i list the mounted devices I get:
/dev/fuse on /temp type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev)

I used mono-fuse. I just created a new folder with permissions 777 and then did a mount. After unmounting I can do all operations, but when I mount, I get such error.

I used
HelloFS.exe that comes along with mono fuse for testing. Can someone shed some light on this weird behavior and what mistake ive done. Thank you !!

-Sethu

Hi,
I made some little applications with qt creator and i wanted to run them on an embedded linux board (linux 2.6.24). To transfer the files i use a SD card. If i move the applications to "/bin" after having mounted the SD card and then "chmod a+x" them then i have no problem running them.
But if i mount the SD card and try to run the applications directly in the folder where i mount it i have an error : "Permission denied". Also when using the command "ls" i notice that if i keep the files in the mounting folder and try to "chmod a+x" them, the modification don't happen. They stay "greyed" and don't go "green". (I don't know if this color code is a standart for linux terminal but maybe this could help you understand the problem).
When mounting the SD card i use the command :
Code:

mount -t vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/SD

So the files are located in /mnt/SD.

Am i missing something or is it not possible to run something like that ?

EDIT :
I tried "mount -t vfat -o umask=0000 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/SD" to chnage how i am mounting the SD card.

Still "Permission Denied".

With "ls -l" i can see that the permissions are staying :
-rw-rw-rw-

Even if i try something like "chmod 777".

It seems to be a problem related to the fact that the sd card is formated as fat32 but it must stay like that.