In this wiki article: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetUpSamba …there is a command down in section 2 that gives an error here on CentOS 7: $ sudo semanage fcontext –at samba_share_t /path/to/share …noise noise noise… semanage: error: unrecognized arguments: samba_share_t /path/to/share That and the following restorecon command can be replaced by a single shorter command, which also fixes the symptom: $ sudo chcon -R -t samba_share_t /path/to/share