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I am trying to change permission and change the group permission of the folders which are shared through SAMBA (Samba PDC). Commands are as follows:

# chmod 766 /mnt/Format

but nothing changed.

Please help.

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  • Is this share on local PC or is mounted from network drive?
    – Danatela
    Mar 19, 2014 at 7:49
  • share is in local pc different partition (NTFS)
    – Bishwanath Das
    Mar 19, 2014 at 8:35

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The problem is because you use POSIX-specific command (chmod) to change non-POSIX-compliant filesystem (NTFS). The chown command also does not work on such filesystems. To change permissions on NTFS shares you should use mount options.

From man mount.ntfs:

OPTIONS
       Below is a summary of the options that ntfs-3g accepts.

       uid=value and gid=value
              Set the owner and the group of files and directories. The values
              are  numerical.  The defaults are the uid and gid of the current
              process.
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       permissions
              Set  standard  permissions  on  created  files  and use standard
              access control.  This option is set by default when a user  map‐
              ping file is present.

So, instead of using

chmod 766 /mnt/Format

use

mount -o uid=UID,permissions,remount /mnt/Format

See man mount.ntfs for further help. There is nice EXAMPLES section which helps understanding how mounting works.

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