Mounting NTFS file-systems as writeable on Fiesty Fawn

Recently, I got my self an external hard disk for easy carrying around of large data...
The USB disk was automatically detected and mounted !! ...but as read-only :(....
Now, I don't want to get rid of NTFS on the disk, as this would be flipped back and forth between Windows and Linux OSes... (could have chosen FAT 32..had it not been for the 2GB/file limit)....
I found this doc about mounting the NTFS file-systems in read/write mode... but before doing what the document says...you need 2 install the ntfs-config package.

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

After successfully installing the ntfs-config package, do what the doc says and voila you can mount all your NTFS partitions automatically and enable them writable.

P.S. This sorta worked automatically with my hard drives ..but my external drive was having some trouble....Some how, though automatically detected and mounted.....it was write-able only by the super user (root)...the "Create Folder" option had been greyed out :(...Being a command line buff.. I sudo ed (shud I say su-did :P) "mkdir" and it worked, if the user is root...I'm not sure what exactly is th e solution to this problem, but after a couple of mounts and unmounts...I'm able to create files as a "sudo" capable user! My external drive works perfectly now!!!

Note: Running commands using sudo will give the user the ultimate power; you better know what you are doing and do it at your own risk :)