I have been having this problem since day one with fedora. I have everthing setup to read my NTFS drive. I have it mounted and can see it as root, but no user account can see it, and only root can mount it. I really don't know what to do here. My fstab line looks like this /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,unmask=0222 0 0 I have tried everything and one thing did work a cmd line mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222 then I can read it in a non-root mode. I got the info from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#4.0 has anyone else had this issue.