Change Owner From "root" in VMware's Shared Folder

I'm running a Xubuntu from a Windows 8 host. I can't change the owner of shared files from xubuntu by any sudo chown ... command. Is there any other way I can change the owner from the root to the user? I also have tried to mount the shared folder into home directory, still didn't change anything hooman@ubuntu:~/win/meteor$ ls -al total 20 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 10 19:03 . drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 Dec 11 18:30 .. drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Dec 10 19:03 simple-todos hooman@ubuntu:~/win/meteor$ **Edit:** after doing sudo chown: hooman@ubuntu:~/win/meteor$ ls -al total 20 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 10 19:03 . drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 Dec 11 18:30 .. drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Dec 10 19:03 simple-todos hooman@ubuntu:~/win/meteor$ sudo chown -v hooman simple-todos/ changed ownership of ‘simple-todos/’ from root to hooman hooman@ubuntu:~/win/meteor$ ls -al total 20 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 10 19:03 . drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 Dec 11 18:30 .. drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Dec 10 19:03 simple-todos