How to debug smb public share not working?

Question

I'm trying to set up a pulic anonymous user login smb share. Even though my settings are nearly identical to previous successful setups I've made, I still get permission denied.

Here is the share section in my smb.conf file:

[test]
        comment = test
        path = /root/test
        guest ok = yes
        readonly = no
        browsable = yes
        public = yes

I've tailed the following files and seen nothing when trying to access the share:

1. /var/log/samba/log.smbd
2. /var/log/samba/log.nmbd
3. /var/log/samba/log.192.168.1.2

Answer 1

Finally found the issue.

Although the entire file structures under test directory was with 777 permissions, the directory containing it was with 700. changed it to 755 and it is now working okay.