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I'm trying to mount NTFS filesystem in Linux with the following settings:

  1. In Linux all files and directories in NTFS should be owned by root and have a group win. Permissions should be set to 775.
  2. All files and directories created by Linux in NTFS filesystem should have in Windows the same ownership and permissions as a directory containing newly created file or directory.

To this end, I've added the following record to fstab:

/dev/sda7 /mnt/win/users_data ntfs-3g noauto,inherit,usermapping=/etc/ntfs-3g.usermapping,uid=0,gid=1002,umask=0002 0 0

Here is a content of the /etc/ntfs-3g.usermapping file:

:win:S-1-5-21-3452292639-2475245894-2622236828-1002
:win:S-1-5-21-3452292639-2475245894-2622236828-1003
:win:S-1-5-21-3452292639-2475245894-2622236828-1005
:win:S-1-5-21-3452292639-2475245894-2622236828-1004
:win:S-1-5-21-3452292639-2475245894-2622236828-1009
...

When the filesystem is mounted, the following message appears in console:

$ sudo mount /mnt/win/users_data
There were no valid user or no valid group

Files and directories in mounted filesystem have the right ownership and permissions in Linux (root:win 775). But in Windows all users is permitted to do all operations over files created by Linux in the filesystem.

What am I doing wrong? And how to mount NTFS filesystem in the way described above?

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From the mount.ntfs-3g man page:

When a user mapping file (usermapping=file-name) is defined, the options uid=, gid=, umask=, fmask=, dmask= and silent are ignored.

  1. In Linux all files and directories in NTFS should be owned by root and have a group win. Permissions should be set to 775.

You don't need a usermapping for this. Your UID, GID and umask settings are correct, just ditch the usermapping=

Point 2. is achieved by using inherit which you already have.

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  • I've removed usermapping from the record in fstab. No more error messages appear in console when the filesystem being mounted. However, in Windows all users still have full rights over files created by Linux despite the presence of inherit option in the fstab record.
    – vect
    Jul 25, 2013 at 8:01

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