There's an option for this. It's called wafl.root_only_chown. Set it to
off and everything will work just fine.
-- 
Regards:
Benny Wiström
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
-Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
 bhaskar.g@philips.com wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently we have procured a Filer 720. We are facing a strange problem. Though I am the owner of a file or directory
> When i try to change the ownership of the file or directory or if i try to copy the file to some other directory. It gives the
> following errors
> 
> bhaskarg@sahadev$ chown babuk:users quota.txt
> quota.txt: Not owner
> bhaskarg@sahadev$  ll quota.txt
> -rw-rw-r--   1 bhaskarg   users         1137 Feb 29 10:29 quota.txt
> bhaskarg@sahadev$
> 
> sunitha@detroit$ ll
> total 336
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 sunitha    WEB           1936 Jan 28 10:17 Glite_To_do27thJan.html
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 sunitha    WEB           5945 Feb 11 16:49 Glite_to10Feb.html
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 sunitha    WEB          20992 Mar  1 11:51 Glite_to24thFeb.xls
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 sunitha    WEB          30068 Feb 28 17:48 estimation_back.html
> drwxrwxr-x   2 sunitha    WEB           4096 Mar  7 14:42 images
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 sunitha    WEB            690 Mar  2 16:52 index.html
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 sunitha    WEB            418 Feb  5 16:03 innovteam.html
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 sunitha    WEB           2466 Mar  7 14:45 right_innov.html
> sunitha@detroit$ cp -p right_innov.html /home/www/htdocs/groups/innov/.
> cp: utime failed right_innov.html: Not owner
> sunitha@detroit$
> 
> regards
> Bhaskar G
> Systems Engineer,
> Philips Semiconductors,
> #3, Sterling Square,Madras Bank Road,
> Off St Mark's Road,BANGALORE-560 001.
> Voice :  +91 80 222 9200   Ext 5060
> Fax: +91 80 2229700