Samba is to connect different computer over the network. This situation is not applicable for you, because your partitions exist on the same computer.
What you are looking for is to have your second partition (the Windows partition) automatically mounted after startup.
By default, your Windows partition is not connected when you start Ubuntu. You can, however, easily connect it by clicking the icon of the partition in the left pane of "Files", the file manager (a.k.a. nautilus). For practical purposes, this could be enough. It takes one click each time before you can access the files.
However, you can also have that Windows partition mounted automatically during startup. You can use the utility "Disks" for that. After that, the partition will automatically be available in the folder you indicate as mount point.
For this to successfully work each time, you must make sure that your Windows partition is clean when Ubuntu starts. To make sure it is clean, you need to turn of "Fast start" in Windows. This way, you have Windows shut down completely each time. Only then will it fully close the ntfs partition, so Ubuntu can mount it.
Once set up, your Windows disk will automatically be available within the Ubuntu system. Any shortcuts you create will work right after the start.