On Thu, 22 May 2003 Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:

> root@fearlessrogue:/# chown rob.rob /stuff
> chown: changing ownership of `/stuff': Operation not permitted

I assume that /stuff is not a Unix-type filesystem.

Maybe, use your mount options to choose which uid (and gid) should be used
when it is mounted in the first place.

Have a look at the "mount" output and look at /etc/fstab.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/