Permission denied on Samba share

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I am trying to setup a simple samba share, but all I can get is "permission denied" (both in Windows and Linux). This is my share section:

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        comment = PDFs
        browseable = yes
        guest only = yes
        path = /writeable/path
        writable = yes
        public = yes  
        valid users = somevaliduser

I can mount the share and read files that are in there, but there is no write access. The dir itself has rwxrwxrwx permissions.

And of course, the Samba logs are useless as ever.

Best Answer

Turns out, it was SELinux.

I had checked it before using selinuxenabled, which returned 0, turns out, that means SELinux is enabled. (Who thinks of these things?).

The correct command to check it is sestatus, which told me it was enabled and enforcing.

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