2009/1/6 Johnny Rosenberg <<a href="mailto:gurus.knugum@gmail.com">gurus.knugum@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> I've done some more experimenting now and I found the answer to my question. The problem was that Nautilus doesn't tell me the whole truth. Nautilus only show the rights and owners for the destination file! When I used the virtual console instead, the information was quite different:The original file: -rw-r--r-- 1 guraknugen guraknugen 34k 2008-12-18 19:26 Tangentbordslayout Ubuntu 20080217.ods The link located in a folder on my USB HDD: lrwxrwxrwx 1 guraknugen guraknugen 101 2008-06-01 00:37 Tangentbordslayout Ubuntu 20080217.ods -> /home/guraknugen/Eget/Kontor/Blandat/Tangentbordskonfiguration/Tangentbordslayout Ubuntu 20080217.ods The link located in a folder, not the same as the original file, on my internal HDD: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 101 2008-06-01 00:37 Tangentbordslayout Ubuntu 20080217.ods -> /home/guraknugen/Eget/Kontor/Blandat/Tangentbordskonfiguration/Tangentbordslayout Ubuntu 20080217.ods So you were right, the owner of the link at the destination folder was root, not guraknugen (me), but Nautilus hided that information for me! Maybe there is a setting somewhere in Nautilus that prevents that behaviour. Now a follow up question: When using chown (even as root), the owner of the link doesn't change, so it seems like the change is applied to the target file rather than on the link itself. Is there a way to do this or is it better to just remove the link and create a new one? The reason that I would change the current link rather than to create a new one would probably be to learn how to do it. I'll taka a closer look at the man pages now. Thanks for your help!Johnny Rosenberg </blockquote><div></div><div>It wasn't too hard:</div><div>sudo chown -h guraknugen:guraknugen Tangentbordslayout\ Ubuntu\ 20080217.ods</div><div> </div><div>Johnny Rosenberg </div>