URGENT: Unable to change ownership of file as root

[Craig A. Sharp]

I have a file on an nfs mount that is UID nobody and group users. When I try to do a chown as root to change the owner to a different user, I get permission denied, not owner.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Craig

[Paul Sperry]

You need to change the permissions on the
Exported file system. That is you will need to log in as root on the system that has
the files locally.

[Craig A. Sharp]

I wish I could. It is a Compaq Storageworks NAS S1000. It runs Win2k and exports the directory to nfs.

[Ken Hubnik_2]

The the Window nerds need to give you access to change the file.

[Tom Jackson]

Hi Craig:

Sounds like the server has root access disabled for the file system. You either need to access the file from the server as root, enable root access for the NFS clients, or su to nobody, then access the file.

hth,

Tom

[Steven E. Protter]

somebody must be admin of the NAS.

Could the storage on that NAS actually be allocated to another Unix box and be exported by that?

I've used Win2K for years and was not aware I could export files as NFS.

Steve

[Craig A. Sharp]

Well, the NAS has a special version of 2k on it. It is actually using some version of CIFS to do the exports. I am not really sure how it all works.
Here is what I found so far. If I login as root, I can change the perms and the gid. Once I change the gid to users, I can logout and login as the user that I want as the UID and make the chown.

Kind of a round about way of doing it but it works. Hows that for strange.