Sometimes, in this world, it happen that you need to read from an NTFS partition with your fantastic SuSE 9.3 and you think it’s easy to configure it with YaST -> patition … and … you find a bad surprise: IT DOESN’T WORK !!!!
Don’t disperate babe, you always have the command line 
and my instructions!!!
Open a shell and insert following commands:
mkdir /wherever/ntfs
chown root:users /wherever/ntfs
vim /etc/fstab
To the last line insert:
/dev/hda1 /wherever/ntfs ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
where “/dev/hda1″ could be different according to your ntfs partition. Ex. “/dev/sda1″ for USB disks.
If yours it’s an external HD write this:
/dev/sdb1 /wherever/ntfs subfs ro,users,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
where “/dev/sdb1″ could be different on your system and uid/gid too. To verify uid/gid just type “id” in a shell and find your user.
That’s all folks!! Now you can mount your partition using “mount /dev/hda1″!!
