I'm running a Ubuntu server version 11.10 and I've added a secondary hard drive recently.

Using Nautilus, I can create and edit files/folders but I'm unable to modify permissions. Currently, the drive is labeled "FC503CC8503C8C00" with the following permissions

drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2012-03-31 09:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2012-03-27 08:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-01-20 22:50 cdrom
drwx------ 6 root root 4096 2012-03-22 15:25 FC503CC8503C8C00
drwx------ 1 user1 user1 4096 2012-03-30 17:46 FC503CC8503C8C00_
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2012-01-20 22:47 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-01-20 22:47 floppy0

When I attempt to modify the permissions, I receive the following:

chmod 777 /FC503CC8503C8C00_
chmod: cannot access `/FC503CC8503C8C00_': No such file or directory

Altimately,I'm trying to share the folders to other machines within the network.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Where is FC503CC8503C8C00 mounted? Your ls -l makes it look like it's in the /mnt/ directory or similar, yet you're trying to chmod it like it's in /. Your chmod should look like
Assuming that's where it lives.

should give us the full paths that are needed for your issue.

The drive is mounted at /media/FC503CC8503C8C00_. Here are the permissions before any adjustments.

User1@mserver:~$ ls -al /media
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2012-03-31 09:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2012-03-27 08:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-01-20 22:50 cdrom
drwx------ 6 root root 4096 2012-03-22 15:25 FC503CC8503C8C00
drwx------ 1 user1 user1 4096 2012-03-30 17:46 FC503CC8503C8C00_
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2012-01-20 22:47 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-01-20 22:47 floppy0

After attempting to change command, here are the current permission:

user1@mserver:/media/FC503CC8503C8C00_$ chmod 777 /media/FC503CC8503C8C00_
user1@mserver:/media/FC503CC8503C8C00_$ ls -al /media
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2012-03-31 09:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2012-03-27 08:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-01-20 22:50 cdrom
drwx------ 6 root root 4096 2012-03-22 15:25 FC503CC8503C8C00
drwx------ 1 user1 user1 4096 2012-03-30 17:46 FC503CC8503C8C00_
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2012-01-20 22:47 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-01-20 22:47 floppy0

No change applied!! Help! I just don't understand.

Thanks

Command issued:

user1@mserver:/media/FC503CC8503C8C00_$ ls -lrt -d -1 $PWD/{*,.*}

drwx------ 1 user1 user1 4096 2012-01-24 15:27 /media/FC503CC8503C8C00_/Media
-rw------- 1 user1 user1 671 2012-03-27 17:14 /media/FC503CC8503C8C00_/fstab.txt
drwx------ 1 user1 user1 0 2012-03-30 17:42 /media/FC503CC8503C8C00_/.Trash-1000
drwx------ 1 user1 user1 4096 2012-03-30 17:46 /media/FC503CC8503C8C00_/.
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2012-03-31 09:40 /media/FC503CC8503C8C00_/..

So root owns FC503CC8503C8C00_ parent directory and the permissions on it only allow changing by the owner. To effect change on FC503CC8503C8C00_ and not just the files inside root will have work. Do you have sudo or su capabilities on that system? If no you can only change the files inside FC503CC8503C8C00_.

Sudo is available on this machine. Do I need to lgoin as Root to modify permission?

Thank you for your assistance.

The permissions of the drive itself might also be fixed in the mount command.

If user1 has sudo rights they should be able to do
sorry cant bring myself to type those other two 7s.