How do you change 'Owners Enabled' to "No" on an installed Hard drive?

I recently installed a third drive in my Mac pro and after adjusting permissions the users on the machine can read and write their own files, but not anyone else's. I noticed that within Disk Utility, the parameter 'Owners Enabled' is set to 'Yes' so I assume I need it set to 'No' so that anyone can do anything to any file on that drive. Trouble is I don't know how to do it. Thanks in advance for the help! Much appreciated.

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