drpaul wrote: > which is kind of weird to me. ls -l gives > > -rwx------ 1 501 501 167936 2005-10-20 13:30 setup.exe > > I don't understand who or what 501 is and I haven't been able to find the > tools to extract that info. There is no group with 501 as the GID in > /etc/groups. ???? Then that user & group is invalid on your system and that's why you can't do anything with those files. Check your fstab maybe? It could be forcing that UID/GID on all files. In either case that would be domain of your distro support.