Mount NTFS partition at startup, with non-root user as owner

In the options column add permissions and auto (and probably user or users)

nls=iso8859-1,permissions,users,auto

permissions: (NTFS-3G option) Set standard permissions on created files and use standard access control.
auto: Will be mounted at boot and from mount -a
user: Allow an ordinary user to mount the filesystem
users: Allow every user to mount and unmount the filesystem

Then change ownership of the filesystem:

sudo chown -R thomas:thomas /media/data

My line in /etc/fstab

/dev/sda5 /media/ntfs ntfs-3g users,permissions,auto 0 0

Mount and list permissions

sudo mount /media/ntfs
Using default user mapping

bodhi@ufbt:~$ ls -l /media

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2012-01-04 17:08 ntfs

Change ownership and list new permissions

bodhi@ufbt:~$ sudo chown bodhi:bodhi /media/ntfs

bodhi@ufbt:~$ ls -l /media

drwxr-xr-x 1 bodhi bodhi 4096 2012-01-04 17:10 ntfs

By default, ntfs-3g mounts the partition noexec, nosuid, and nodev.

noexec: Do not allow direct execution of any binaries on the mounted filesystem.
nosuid: Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take effect.
nodev: Do not interpret character or block special devices on the file system.

To override this and allow executing files, use exec

/dev/sda5 /media/ntfs ntfs-3g exec,permissions,auto 0 0

Now we get

bodhi@ufbt:~$ ls -l /media/ntfs

-rwx------ 1 bodhi bodhi 28 2012-01-04 17:16 file

bodhi@ufbt:~$ /media/ntfs/file
It works

Use the uid and gid options (or use the user mapping feature) of mount.ntfs (8)

What about using udisks? It can easily mount NTFS partitions with your user as owner.

Example (type it into command line):

/usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/sda3

You can also add that command to startup applications and it will auto-mount when you log-in.

Reference: AutomaticallyMountPartitions

Mine works now perfectly when i change the fstab's line to

UUID=761C84B31C846FC3 /media/d        ntfs    defaults,umask=022,uid=1000 0       0

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