I have mounted a smb resource with the following command:

#mount -t smbfs -o username=111,password=123 //COMP/Storage /mnt/comp

I want to change the ownership from root to a user ...

I try the command:

#chown username:users -Rv /mnt/comp

But it sez:
"Operation not permitted"

Why is that?

How can I fix this?

Thanks in advance ...

Because ntfs/fat32 (and thus smbfs) know nothing of
linux perms ... what you want is:

mount -t smbfs -o username=111,password=123,uid=<UID>,gid=<GID> //COMP/Storage /mnt/comp

10x x a lot

i don't mean to be a noobie here but what do you put in the fields for username password uid and gid?

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

I would have thought that the first two are rather
self-explanatory ... the share is most likely set-up
with some sort of authentication, quite commonly
based on a username and password :) ... that's the
things you put in username and password... uid and gid
is the numerical ID of the user and group that you want
to be able to write to that share by default.


Cheers,
Tink

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