Thanks for your help. I got it working againby jgkempen - Debian
I am pretty sure the problems are unrelated to my samba installation, but for the drive I was using for samba had its partitions resized using gparted on Lubuntu on an X86 machine. That drive was formatted in NTFS as I needed to maintain the ability to plug it into a windows machine if needed. I think some how during a power cycle the ext3 formatted usb drive I was using for boot got corruptby jgkempen - Debian
Having some issues with my pogo plug pro after I installed uboot and debian. Completed uboot and debian install just fine. I could ssh into it just fine and then I setup samba. Samba was working, but I decided I wanted to change the partition size on my samba drive ( not the drive I am booting off of). I shut down the pogo plug and used another linux box to change the partition on the sby jgkempen - Debian