These strange issues may indeed be caused by smb.conf busted by the firmware update, but on a normal healthy NAS these two files should actually be one and the same.
/etc/smb.conf is a symbolic link to /etc/config/smb.conf
/etc/config is a symbolic link to /mnt/HDA_ROOT/.config
As demonstrated on my NAS:
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$ ls -l /etc/smb.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 admin administrators 15 Jul 5 13:14 /etc/smb.conf -> config/smb.conf
$ ls -l /etc/config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 admin administrators 21 Jul 5 11:16 /etc/config -> /mnt/HDA_ROOT/.config
$ cmp /etc/smb.conf /mnt/HDA_ROOT/.config/smb.conf
# cp /mnt/HDA_ROOT/.config/smb.conf /etc/smb.conf
cp: `/mnt/HDA_ROOT/.config/smb.conf' and `/etc/smb.conf' are the same file
If it's busted again, take a closer look at /etc/smb.conf: is it a symbolic link? If yes, to what? If not, what are its contents?