Symlink to an NTFS volume in triple boot system

[markosjal]

I have finaly set up my dream multi Boot Win7/OSX/Mint system with one exception. The mint part which I thought would be the easiest is turning out problmatic.

You see I have 5 partitions as follows
Win NTFS
OSX HFS+
Mint ext4
Files NTFS (for commn documents folders from all OSs)
Linux Swap

In windows I can define locations for user documents, and set to Files

In Mac OSX I can mount NTFS with read/write and FUSE then made a symlink to Files

In Mint however I made a symlink much like OSX, and at boot Mint complains because other users have write privlidges to the "user" directory apparently as defind by the symlink. I can not even seem to change the permissions on the symlink. I was finally able to recreate it in the userspace without "sudo" so the owner shows correctly. When I previously tried to chown it woud not work. I also tried to chmod 755 on the symlink and can not change the permissions. Is there somthing I am missing ir a better way to define the user file locatons?

[altair4]

You can't chmod a symlink. And you can't chmod an NTFS filesystem.

It's not clear what you are trying to do but if you want to mount an ntfs partition and "link" it to say your home directory then mount it that way in /etc/fstab. Something like this:

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UUID=DA9056C19056A3B3 /home/altair/CommonData ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=000,uid=1000,windows_names 0 0

Run the following command to get the correct UUID number:

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sudo blkid -c /dev/null

And make the new mount point:

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mkdir /home/altair/CommonData