Hi everybody, Okay, after a copuple of hours googling in search for an answer with no success, i come here with the hope to find the light. This is "simple": I mounted a remote filesystem with NFS (as root) as you can see on my fstab file: [code=xml]xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/media/docs /mnt/data nfs auto,sync,nosuid,user,rw 0 0[/code] I can write, read, erase files, etc. But if I try ot chmod/chown a file or a directory, i get the following message: [code=xml]# chown nobody.nobody /mnt/data/hello.txt[/code] [code=xml]chown: changing ownership of `/mnt/data/hello.txt': Operation not permitted[/code] =( Uhh...sooo any advice? Thanks BTW.

Maybe this helps: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/troubleshooting.html#SYMPTOM4

Wow, that was totally wicked! Anyway, i post here the solution if anyone ever wants to know: Just add the [b]no_root_squash[/b] option in the[b] /etc/exports[/b] on the server machine. Although inadvisable, it works. ;) Thanks for your help. [Modified by: Peter on October 08, 2008 05:41 PM]

Glad to hear you solved it.