Re: Can't set access rights with chmod (additional info)

Ronald Fischer infineon.com> writes: In addition to what I wrote in the previous posting, I also tried the following: export CYGWIN=smbntsec Now the behaviour changed in that chmod now works well for *new* files created, but for old files I still can't change anything. This time, I get the error

Can't set access rights with chmod

Please have a look at the following transscript: $ ls -l x1.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 fischron mkgroup-l-d 104 May 5 15:54 x1.pl $ chmod 0777 x1.pl $ ls -l x1.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 fischron mkgroup-l-d 104 May 5 15:54 x1.pl $ chmod +x x1.pl $ ls -l x1.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 fischron mkgroup-l-d 104 May 5 15:54 x1.pl