chmod WSL (Bash) doesn't work

Question

Running bash on windows 10, the simple syntax below works when I SSH to my webserver, but not when I exit out and am on my local machine. It doesn\'t give me an error, but I

Answer 1

Both Amades and Chaos answers are correct. But it only works for local drives not for mapped network drives. Z: is one of my network drives. Same operation on /mnt/c/Users/xxx/ works fine.

$sudo mount -t drvfs Z: /mnt/z -o metadata
$touch test
$chmod +w test
 chmod: changing permissions of 'test': Operation not permitted

This is a known issue, see drvfs: metadata (chmod\chown) possible for mounted SMB drives?