As it turns out, NTFS support is built in to the operating system, and it just takes a few small tweaks to make it work. For instance, I could log in to Root and mount the drive, but i forgot to set the permissions for my user account to have read access. Once that was done, I could easily go through my windows drives.
That is why I like Linux, it actually supports other file systems besides its own natively. The same is true with OSX. Windows, however, requires that you go and find drivers, like with all of its hardware.
I also managed to transfer files over the network to a windows machine. That too, took a mere tweak in the options to accomplish. I was helping someone with a computer problem, and did not want to reboot and wait the many minutes it takes for Windows to boot.
I am, however, having issues finding things within the directory structure of Linux, but it is just a matter of learning the different structure. I have not tooled around much with the console yet. Once I learn the structures in graphical mode, I will be more comfortable with the console.
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