chown not working on remote filesystem, other commands (e.g., chmod) do work

Question

I am trying to change the ownership of a file on a remote filesystem, but chown responds with

chown: changing ownership of ‘foo’: No such file or directory

However, as you can see, foo is there and I can do other operations on it. For example, sudo chmod a+x foo works just fine. E.g.,

prompt> ls -l foo
-rw-rw-r-- 1 debug debug 0 Dec  4 09:45 foo
prompt> sudo chmod a+w foo
prompt> ls -l foo
-rw-rw-rw- 1 debug debug 0 Dec  4 09:45 foo
prompt> sudo chown seth foo
chown: changing ownership of ‘foo’: No such file or directory
prompt> ls -l foo
-rw-rw-rw- 1 debug debug 0 Dec  4 09:45 foo

The directory lives on a remote drive mounted as follows:

sudo mount //10.71.165.126/seth /mnt/centraldrive -o user=name,pass=password

The remote filesystem is a seagate central. I am running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS.

Any help would be appreciated.

[A side note, I created foo with sudo touch foo. However, for some reason the ownership is given the the debug user. Is that related?]

Answer 1

Following the suggestion of douggro I was able to get things done properly, even without an entry in fstab:

sudo mount -t cifs //ip-adr-of-seagate/user /mnt/centraldrive -o username=user,pass=password,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777