Unable to change home folder owner? ls -al showing root

Question

Hello.
I seem to be unable to change the owner of my home folder?
I have tried to use the following command:
sudo chown -R myusername /home/myusername
I even tried to log in as root and do the same, and still ls -al shows root as owner..
I think i have been able to chmod the home folder though, because i can create and delete files in my users homedir.
However, this is kinda bothering me because vncserver seem to be unable to read its passwd file as its asking for a new password every time i start it.. (unless i start it with sudo, but then it reads the passwd file from /root/.vnc/passwd)

Answer 1

If you want proper permissions/acl support you'll have to create a usermapping from uid and gid to microsoft sid. If I don't want to share it with windows I create a usermapping like this:
https://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3 … r-mapping/
#!/bin/sh
domain=$(sed -e "i obase=10\nibase=16" -e "s/[[:xdigit:]]\{8\}/\U&\n/g" /etc/machine-id | bc | {
read a
read b
read c
echo "$a-$b-$c"
echo "# generic \.NTFS-3G\UserMapping"
echo "# (id generated from /etc/machine-id)"
echo
echo "# root group"
echo ":0:S-1-5-21-$domain-512"
echo "# root user"
echo "0::S-1-5-21-$domain-500"
echo "# user group"
echo ":users:S-1-5-21-$domain-513"
echo ":100:S-1-5-21-$domain-513"
echo "# generic template"
echo "::S-1-5-21-$domain-10000"
Last edited by progandy (2014-03-31 16:16:19)