Permissions issues

[Tortoise]

I am having trouble with permissions...
the directory file:home/knoppix/fonts
contains some ttf fonts I want to use, but font manager says it does not have permission to access the dir.
When I go to permissions (right click properties - permissions) it looks as if User has read and write permissions, but I also cannot change the contents as user, only as root.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
PS even when I move the ttf files to a partition I know user has write permissions on, I still get Permission Denied errors trying to install the fonts.

[Stephen]

As root in a console window chown -R knoppix.knoppix /home/knoppix will change the permissions of every file in the knoppix directory recursively (going down into the directories). Just because the directory is owned by the user does not mean the files are you most likely copied the files as root so therefore root still has ownership in future if you copy file as root use the -p option which will keep the current permission of the file to check who owns the file ls -l filename.

[Tortoise]

Ah ha...
Now I understand!
Thank you!