/windows permissions

[Sean Miller]

Anyone know a way to make /windows accessible to others than root?

I have tried tweaking /etc/fstab, I have tried manually mounting with 
options, but whatever I do the filesystem remains owned by root with 
everybody else only having read access... this means that in Nautilus 
all files appear as little gnome feet rather than whatever they are, 
preventing me from navigating through the windows directories to find 
files -- only way is to do a sudo nautilus which should not, really, be 
necessary.

This doesn't happen on other distros I have used (eg. SuSE, Red 
Hat/Fedora) where I have used directories within the windows filesystem 
for Linux, through symbolic links (ie. /storage => /windows/linux) or 
similar...

Is this a feature of Ubuntu? Perhaps designed to prevent accidental 
damage to a dual-boot Windows installation? If so, I can understand the 
reasoning but would love to switch it off... any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Sean