chown -R expanding / to //bin etc.

I've noticed that if I do (*) a chown -R administrator.SYSTEM / then chown goes out onto the network and tries to access shares called //bin, //var, //usr etc., and can block for long periods, too. Now, I do understand that really I should be doing (**) chown -R

Re: chown -R expanding / to //bin etc.

On Jul 21 17:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that if I do (*) a chown -R administrator.SYSTEM / then chown goes out onto the network and tries to access shares called //bin, //var, //usr etc., and can block for long periods, too. Now, I do understand that