<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 December 2011 07:19, Abhishek Dixit <<a href="mailto:abhidixit87@gmail.com">abhidixit87@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> 狢 Can easily access via nautilus gui the windows share It automatically gets mounted at /media deel@ubuntu:/media$ ls -l total 16 drwx------ 1 deel deel 16384 2011-11-16 10:33 New Volume deel@ubuntu:/media$ sudo chmod 755 New\ Volume/ deel@ubuntu:/media$ ls -l total 16 drwx------ 1 deel deel 16384 2011-11-16 10:33 New Volume If you notice in above even after changing permissions the permissions have not changed. What could be the reason and how can I change the permissions? </blockquote><div>If the file system is formatted as NTFS or FAT (i.e. Windows filesystems) you can't change the permissions because Windows file systems don't use Linux/UNIX permissions.</div> </div>