Comment 9 for bug 35354

OK, after messing around with it for an hour, I managed to figure out a way to fix this. This is just a hack until some things with nautilus and hal are fixed up, but you can try this:

Open up /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi and paste this in at the end (but before </deviceinfo>):

<device>
  <match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
    <merge key="volume.is_mounted" type="bool">true</merge>
    <merge key="volume.mount_point" type="string">/media/Windows</merge>
    <merge key="volume.policy.mount_filesystem" type="strlist">fuse</merge>
    <merge key="storage.removable" type="bool">false</merge>
    <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge>
  </match>
</device>

Of course, replace /media/Windows with the mount point. This won't work if you have multiple NTFS partitions, change the match element to match your device. Please let me know if this works :-)

Cheers, Samuel