Hello
My PC has Mandriva 2010 as OS. I have a disk with EXT3 for linux and /home. I have another disk, formatted as NTFS that I use to storage files. Last monday I upgraded the NTFS-3G package, with version 20091114. From that moment every time I copy or move a file from the EXT3 disk to the NTFS one I see a dolphin Information message with something like this (the original message is in spanish, so I have translated it)

I cannot change the permissions of file "/Destination/filename"

It's the first time I have this issue with NTFS-3G. Is this normal or am I missing anything?

Best regards

Hi,


It is probably normal and you have missed reading the manual.

Contrary to older versions of ntfs-3g, ntfs-3g-2009.11.14 fully supports ownership and permissions.... but you have to define a few parameters.

As a first step, create, in the NTFS root directory, a directory named .NTFS-3G (use capitals and do not forget the initial dot !), and, in this directory insert a file named UserMapping (only U and M as capital letters), containing this single line :
Code:


and it should be OK. Please read the ntfs-3g manual or http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g ... rmissions/ for explanations.

Regards

Jean-Pierre