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)

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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