Xfce external drive: Permission Denied

Now that I've reformatted, I thought I'd try my hand at Xfce, and see what it's like. Problem is, when I try to mount and access my external, thunar says I can't assess my external, and says "Permission Denied". At least when I used kdemod it still let me read the files. Now it's total lockdown. So far, only gnome has let me use my external to my wishes

I think there's some problem with my drive's permission/group, since it's using NTFS.

How do I get it to be accessed? Trying a

Code:

sudo chmod 777 /media/Arda-2

gives "chmod: changing permissions of `/media/Arda-2': Read-only file system"

and ls -l /media/ gives

Code:

dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2008-12-24 13:03 Arda-2

 

How about login in as root and changing permissions from the GUI?

 

Since you are using kdemod, I take that you are using Arch. Have you added yourself to the storage group?

As root type

Code:

# gpasswd -a (username) storage

Now just logout and log back in.

 

I've tried logging in as root from gdm, but that didn't seem to work. Do I have to login in the black screen terminal first then run startx or something?

I was using xfce and kdemod. Now back to gnome again because I couldn't access my external. In both cases, I'm in storage.

 

Try running thunar as root:

Code:

su -c 'thunar'