how to browse vista drives on dual boot vista/ubunutu

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how to auto mount drives on dual boot vista/ubunutu

I installed Ubunutu ultimate 1.8 and I am new to Linux so don't know how to browse all by disk within ubunutu.

I can bring the ikons of disk to desktop open from there, but I need to open files on my E: drive within GIMP on ubunutu there I don't see the drives at all, I tried dragging the files but that also does not work.

C:Vista sp1
D: data
E: data
F: ubunutu ultimate 1.8
all drives are ntfs

Need some direction.

drives are mounted in /media directory

Ok that did the job,
but on every reboot I have to mount my drives again & again, is there a way to keep them mounted?

Install ntfs-3g or ntfs-config from Synaptic Package Manager.

^^yeah

or setup fstab (/etc/fstab) file manually

Thanks
installed the ntfs-config enabled the auto mount.

u r a quick learner

thanks for the compliments.
Its been a long time wish to switch to linux but the unix command lines kept me holding, with ubunutu ultimate its quite easy but I still need to learn lot many basic things about it.

I will keep posting my questions in this forum.

next,if you want mobile phone synchronization,install "wammu",obexfs,obexftp,opensyncutils and maybe gmobilemedia

and...for your info,command line,that is bash shell is very easy and intuitive with auto complete feature.
Enjoy!

^+1 for wammu. Its very good for synchronizing mobiles with linux pcs. It detected my SE w660i without a bit of pain, all automated. I had to figure out the device file for my phone (being a n00b in linux

), but since there were only two of them in the list of wammu setup dialog, so no problem whatsoever.

Now I have an obviously reverse requirement.
How to browse linux files from windows? must be easy but I cant figure out.
As of now I have to copy to windows partitions then it works but I want to keep the files in linux documents/pictures etc &open the files from windows.