sudo chown -R root:users "Operation not permitted"

[n1ght28]

using this guide http://elinux.org/R-Pi_NAS
to setup Samba share

changing the permissions of the share

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sudo chown -R root:users /home/shares/public

gives me lots and lots of

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chown: changing ownership of `/home/shares/public/': Operation not permitted

for all the files and folders in it.

the share is the mountpoint for my usb hardrive FAT32

where am i going wrong here???

[joan]

FAT32 does not support unix style ownership permissions.

[n1ght28]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU,

Now is there a way around this,

you see i need my usb hardrive to be readable by both my windows laptop and my xbox360

is there a different format that will fit the bill?

[jaromanda]

how do you mount it? you can specify uid/gid on mounting

[n1ght28]

Ok,
Got it to mount with

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sudo mount -t vfat -o defaults,user,exec,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=000,rw /dev/sda1 /home/shares/public/disk1

I can create folders from the raspberry and "cd" into them,

But I cant create folders from connected Samba clients,

think its a problem with my fstab or my smb.conf

Fstab

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//192.168.1.19/public /media/pi cifs uid=calbert,credentials=/home/calbert/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

smb.conf

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####### Authentication #######

security = user
  client lanman auth = Yes
  lanman auth = Yes


[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = xbian
server string = xbian
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
map to guest = bad user
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
local master = no
dns proxy = no


[public]
path = /home/shares/public
public = yes
only guest = yes
writable = yes

where am I going wrong,