File Upload question ...

Hi! I am trying to accomplish file upload using the POST method uploads. When I was trying to set the path to the directory on the remote server where I have permission, I get back a "PERMISSION DENIED" response to that directory. I then changed the permissions to 777 to that directory. After this I was successful in doing the upload. However, I noticed that the file that was being uploaded had the owner as "NOBODY". This was the reason why my upload failed in the first attempt. Is there a way to change this "owner" from "nobody" to my own username? Do we have to do something different using the PHP code so that I do the file transfer as "myself" as opposed to "nobody"? I appreciate any help or pointers with respect to this problem. === Viral Shah