Samba service & issues

service samba status

ward@lapwm2-lxm ~ $ sudo service samba start

Failed to start samba.service: Unit samba.service is masked.
mint

/lib/systemd/system/samba.service

systemctl stop samba
systemctl start samba
sudo systemctl unmask samba
sudo systemctl unmask samba.service   ::   no errors however it does not
actually unmask. 

diasable  service : systemctl disable nginx
enable  service : systemctl enable nginx

sudo systemctl unmask samba
sudo systemctl enable samba
Synchronizing state of samba.service with SysV init with
/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install…
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable samba
update-rc.d: error: samba Default-Start contains no runlevels,
aborting.

I deleted samba.service, ran the unmask command again and it now works.