creating a network share with samba on linux command line

Following this page, created a share by 
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

and adding at the end of it,

[mysharename]

path = /home/path/to/folder

valid users = myusername

read only = no

testparm

was successful, but 
sudo service smbd restart

indicated that there was no such service.

sudo apt install samba

was required.

After that, it worked, but soft links inside the shared folder were not visible. Hard links are only possible within the same physical volume, not across different disks. 

Following

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5120/how-do-you-make-samba-follow-symlink-outside-the-shared-path

added the following to the smb.conf file above, in the global section,

[global]

allow insecure wide links = yes

and in the [mysharename] section,

[mysharename]

follow symlinks = yes

wide links = yes

Another smbd restart, and now it was working fine. File transfer going around 15 to 20 Mbps on our wifi.