linux help required

[skool h8r]

hi all,
i've just finished installing ubuntu linux 6.06 and now i have a problem. i want to be able to mount the windows XP partitions i have so that i can play my music and view my files in ubuntu. When i try to mount them, a warning appears telling me that they aren't removable and that it could not execute pmount. Can anyone help me work out how to mount the drives so that i can access them through linux (if i can do that, i plan to use linux for the majority of things).

Thanks,
Scott.

[skool h8r]

ok, figured out how to mount the drives, but now i've done that, whenever i go to access the mount point, i get an error saying that i don't have permission to view the files. I tried to change the permissions so that i could view the files, but i got another error saying that i didn't have permission to change the permissions. i tried logging in as root from the login screen only to find that i'm not allowed to do that either! Anyone help?

[Gizmo]

When you installed Linux, it should have asked you for a password for the root user, and then allowed you to set up additional users IIRC.

[skool h8r]

it only asked me to set a password for the user i wanted to create. i managed to change it by using "sudo passwrd root" and then typing the password i wanted. But i can't seem to login as root from the GUI login screen.

[skool h8r]

aha! got it sorted out! EDIT: realised that you can do an 'install from net' type of thing so i installed xmms and now i'm happy.

[dsio]

So you know, you should reallly change your /etc/fstab to mount whichever windows partitions you want on boot, or by mount -a. When its mounted at boot, the permission issue isn't there. Don't log into any GUI with root. Its a bad idea. Linux won't protect you from screwing the pooch like windows does, and if you rm random stuff (ask Gizmo) it stays rmed.