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I use dual operating systems: Ubuntu and Windows 7.

I want to share on both Ubuntu and Windows only one Dropbox folder.

Whenever my computer starts, It mounts automatically an ntfs partition which contains my Dropbox folder.

I make it with that line in /etc/fstab

/dev/sda3 /media/Phobos ntfs rw,defaults,users,umask=007,gid=46,noatime   0  0

The problem is that

If any file in Dropbox changes (not by me), I take a permission violated error. Dropbox cannot synchronize. Although I can write a file in Dropbox folder or another folder on Phobos, applications that I start, cannot.

If I make:

sudo dropbox start

Dropbox can synchronize. How can I solve this problem?

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I don't use dropbox but the way you described this it sounds like dropbox isn't actually starting at boot-up. Have you verified that dropbox is being handled by rc.d? Perhaps you need to update-rc.d dropbox defaults (help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBootupHowto) – polynomial Oct 1 '11 at 4:55
I haven't problem with dropbox only, tar isn't working by the same reason. tar start extract but files cannot be written on this disk. Ubuntu starts dropbox for every boot-up if what you asked. – Thorn Oct 1 '11 at 8:09
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