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I want to access folders from my ntfs drive from my account, I can do it as root when I am logged in as root but not when I am logged in from another account. I am using gnome and the programs it uses can't access /mnt/winxp (the ntfs drive i mounted). I tried setting the file permissions with chmod but it says it is a read only file system. If you could tell me how to either set the file permissions so I can get at that folder from an account other then root that would be great.
Specify them as mount option, either to the mount command, or in /etc/fstab. To make the files world-readable, use "umask=0", either as "mount -o umask=0", or in fstab instead of "defaults".
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