[X-Unix] chmod "just doesn't work" on /Volumes/OtherMac

[Jerry Krinock]

On 2009 Jul 07, at 10:15, Eric F Crist wrote:

> It should work just fine.  Is the file system mounted read/write, or  
> read only?  You can check the real status of a command with 'echo  
> $?', if you get anything other than 0, there was a problem.On 2009  
> Jul 07, at 11:27, Filipp Lepalaan wrote:


On 2009 Jul 07, at 11:27, Filipp Lepalaan wrote:

> mount | grep Pb800HD
>
> If the output of that includes "noowners" then that is the case.  
> Then you can use the Finder to enable ownership or remount it  
> manually.

Thanks, but still no explanation.  Everything looks OK.  It "just  
doesn't work...".  By the way, I have since tried this on another Mac  
and got the same result.  I'd concluded that this was the way it was  
supposed to work.  Weird.

Jerrys-Mac-Mini:Volumes jk$ ls -al
total 16
drwxrwxrwt@  7 root  admin   238 Jul 17 21:32 .
drwxrwxr-x  50 root  admin  1768 Jun 30 05:48 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin     1 Jul 16 13:19 JMiniHD -> /
drwxrwxr-t  16 root  admin   612 Jul  8 12:41 JTimeHD
drwx------  35 jk    staff  1146 Jul  9 15:24 Pb800HD
drwxrwxr-x  13 root  admin   510 Jun  5 22:35 Spare
Jerrys-Mac-Mini:Volumes jk$ chmod -v 777 Pb800HD
Pb800HD
Jerrys-Mac-Mini:Volumes jk$ echo $?
0
Jerrys-Mac-Mini:Volumes jk$ mount | grep Pb800HD
afp_2lZ2Za000bB10000oM0000VU-1.2e000005 on /Volumes/Pb800HD (afpfs,  
nodev, nosuid, mounted by jk)
Jerrys-Mac-Mini:Volumes jk$ ls -al
total 16
drwxrwxrwt@  7 root  admin   238 Jul 17 21:32 .
drwxrwxr-x  50 root  admin  1768 Jun 30 05:48 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin     1 Jul 16 13:19 JMiniHD -> /
drwxrwxr-t  16 root  admin   612 Jul  8 12:41 JTimeHD
drwx------  35 jk    staff  1146 Jul  9 15:24 Pb800HD
drwxrwxr-x  13 root  admin   510 Jun  5 22:35 Spare