changing ownership and group membership

[Ali Imran Abbas]

I am trying to change the owner:group membership of the directory lcsdocuments to wcadmin:users but its giving me the following error:

chown wcadmin lcsdocuments
lcsdocuments: Not owner

I am logged in as root.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Is this a local filesystem or an NFS mounted filesystem? If it is NFS mounted, you probably do not have root privileges.

[Paul Sperry]

Is the directory on a NFS mount?
If so change the owner as root on the NFS server it's self

[Dennis Handly]

>Patrick: Is this a local filesystem or an NFS mounted filesystem?

If the owner isn't root, you can simply su to that user and chown the file.
Provided the server doesn't prevent chown.