[Sheflug] A question on Ownership

[Ruth Gunstone <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A question on Ownership, Symlinks and my "Windows" drive:

In my "Home" directory (/home/ruthie), I have created a symlink, called
'E-drive' to /mnt/win_e (which is a partition on my "Windows" hard-drive).

The ownership of the Symlink was 'root'.

If I telnet from my 'other' computer, I can easily connect to my home
directory, and from there, 'cd E-drive' and view all my files. However, if
I'm logged-in as ruthie, I can't change any of these files as they appear to
be owned by root (I thought 'Windows' had no concept of ownership?!). Nor can
I create any files in this folder :-( 

If I login as root, then I have full access, but this strikes me as a bad
idea.

While viewing the contents of "E-drive", I change to 'su', try a 'chown
ruthie foo.bar', which results in:

chown: changing ownership of `2001_06.jpg': Operation not permitted

I've now changed the ownership of the Symlink to ruthie, but I still can't
change the files on E-drive.

Help, please! What am I not understanding?!

 

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