Ok, I'm an idiot. Well, not really, just a newbie to Linux. I'm trying to mount my NTFS drive. Ubuntu "sees" it, but can't mount it. "CAN'T MOUNT VOLUME You are not privileged to mount the volume 'External'." "External" is the name I gave the drive in Windows. I tried the NTFS Configuration Tool, and enabled write support. This is an external drive (USB), but I also tried it as SATA, same issue. What do I do? If I have to use console (or konsole, lol), how do I know what drive information to enter? Thank you Linux gurus of awesomeness! ~~Dylan

I do not use Ubuntu here, but you should configure the drive to be mounted at boot time. If you have access to the mount options, set usrr-xattr (User extended attributes). My /etc/fstab file contains the following line for my Windows drive (the following is all on a single line): UUID=???????????????? /mnt/windows ntfs-3g user_xattr 0 0 To edit this file, you will need administrative authority. Open the text editor of your preference as root (e.g.: sudo gedit /etc/fstab opens /etc/fstab in the gedit text editor with the authority of the root user). HTH, Ernie Registered Linux User 247790

You need to edit your ubuntu user's permissions to allow external devices to be mounted. It may be by some oddity of naming, your use of the name external is catching ubuntu's security. It could be that you are not telling us correctly, and external is really a usb device mounted drive. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

you have to be root to mount drives in ubuntu it is usually in nautilus on left side and you can bypass that root problem. terminal command is "sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/something /media/folder

Just use Samba. Or Smb4k. It does the job for you and allows you to mount NTFS partitions. Its in the repository.