I'm also affected by this bug but I cannot find a way to get around it without recompiling the ntfs-3g driver by myself; which is something I would prefer not to do.
I'm trying to mount an NTFS USB drive which contains work documents and I need to share those documents across my home network. Currently, auto-mount works fine, but the default permissions are '700' which do not allow me to share the drive to other users on my network. I can mount the drive manually with sudo and by specifying umask=022 (then I can share it via samba) but I would like the drive to be auto-mounted as it is an external device I might need to mount/umount it at anytime easily. If I try to create an fstab entry with the options: user,umask=022 the automount does not work anymore and I'm getting a 'privilege' error as soon as the device is plugged in. So it is a bit of a deadlock as if I remove the fstab entry, I do not get the correct permissions; and if I add it back I cannot mount the drive as a user. I do not want to rebuild the driver on all my PCs and laptops as it would imply that I need the compilation tools everywhere; So could we hope to have an alternate package in the repository that would include the ntfs-3g driver with integrated FUSE support so that each user do not have to rebuild it by himself. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162863 Title: ntfs-3g does not respect fstab options -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
