Comment 7 for bug 162863

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.