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but whatever I do it doesn't change from 700 and when I try from Properties->Permissions it refuses to change to the requested permissions, I'll change permission for Others to 'Access Files' but it'll immediately change back to 'None'. What is going on here? It is an external-HD but I doubt that has anything to do with it.
What filesystem is on the external hard drive? If it's (V)FAT, that filesystem does not support owner/group/other permissions. Instead, "global" permissions are set when the drive is mounted (either by an entry in /etc/fstab or with options to the mount command).
Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, ReiserFS Reiser4, the list goes on and on. Basically, don't use a Microsoft filesystem.
If you need to access this from a Microsoft box...that's a different problem.
but whatever I do it doesn't change from 700 and when I try from Properties->Permissions it refuses to change to the requested permissions, I'll change permission for Others to 'Access Files' but it'll immediately change back to 'None'. What is going on here? It is an external-HD but I doubt that has anything to do with it.
Try to remount the external-HD with RW mode and check.
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