Update.....
I re-built the shares, I can access all of my files through Samba, but FTP loges in then drops the connection due to password or user name problems as best I can tell. This is all over the local network and i do have access to the ports.
The best I can tell is this is some sort of bug... It started right after an update... I never changed a thing. I only do stable updates and never community updates.
I would love some support here, but this thread has been up for a weeks now with no reply. I guess it is time to start looking at other software. Something that has better support / community or works more often than not. Maybe both.