Sharing a remote share with windows

Hi folks
Ive got an archbox fileserver and it runs samba sharing some folders. I can also mount my web host using sshfs. If i then try to share that using samba (which im not sure is possible) windows throws a wobbly and has to be rebooted (cannot do anything to get into task manager)
Is there something im doing wrong or another means of achieving this?

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