From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 18:43:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.moondog.org (freebsd.moondog.org [208.186.117.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C9D37B405 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 18:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from elden@localhost) by freebsd.moondog.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f941h6A25305; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 18:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elden) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 18:43:06 -0700 From: Elden Fenison To: The Psychotic Viper Cc: Radhika Sambamurti , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chmod as root not working Message-ID: <20011003184306.C25130@moondog.org> Mail-Followup-To: The Psychotic Viper , Radhika Sambamurti , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011004005721.90800.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com> <20011004031029.W40303-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011004031029.W40303-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx>; from psyv@sec-it.net on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:15:53AM +0200 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:15:53AM +0200, The Psychotic Viper wrote: > Thats because windows and their filesystems (fat or ntfs) dont support > unix type permission structures.You wont be able to change file > permissions throught the "conventional" manner using chmod. Linux allows for uid= and gid= in fstab. By using that you can set global ownership on the mounted network share. Unfortunately, I'm not certain whether that same thing works under FreeBSD or not. I've tried it once and failed, but not looked much further into it. -- -=Elden=- http://www.moondog.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message