Cannot mount SMB shares after restoring configuration

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Interesting,. Found this thread:

SMB Authentication breaking after TrueNAS (FT) reboots

After upgrading to Fangtooth, I’ve noticed that each time the device reboots, I can’t authenticate to SMB shares. If I reset the password for the user, it will let me back in, even if I reset it to the same password. I can confirm the password is correct / not changing, as cached passwords work until the reboot, then stop working unless reset. Originally, I thought this may have been related to the SMB / NFS issue, so I disabled all NFS shares and even the service, but the problem is persisti…

… and the suggestion there was to reset the users password. I did that for my main user and it worked immediately on all systems and all is back to normal.

Not sure if this will survive a reboot (in that thread it seems to not work again after rebooting).

~$ sudo midclt call user.query '[["smb", "=", true], ["unixhash", "=", "*"]]'
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~$ sudo tail /var/log/middlewared.log
[2025/05/30 19:48:32] (DEBUG) SMBService.update_passdb_user():96 - User [MYUSER] does not exist in the passdb.tdb file. Creating entry with rid [20028].
[2025/05/30 19:48:33] (WARNING) SMBService.update_passdb_user():88 - SMB hash for user [OTHER1] is invalid. Authentication for SMB sessions for this user will fail until this is repaired. This may indicate that configuration was restored without a secret seed, and may be repaired by resetting the user password.
[2025/05/30 19:48:33] (WARNING) SMBService.update_passdb_user():88 - SMB hash for user [OTHER2] is invalid. Authentication for SMB sessions for this user will fail until this is repaired. This may indicate that configuration was restored without a secret seed, and may be repaired by resetting the user password.
[2025/05/30 19:48:33] (WARNING) SMBService.update_passdb_user():88 - SMB hash for user [OTHER3] is invalid. Authentication for SMB sessions for this user will fail until this is repaired. This may indicate that configuration was restored without a secret seed, and may be repaired by resetting the user password.
[2025/05/30 19:48:33] (WARNING) SMBService.update_passdb_user():88 - SMB hash for user [OTHER4] is invalid. Authentication for SMB sessions for this user will fail until this is repaired. This may indicate that configuration was restored without a secret seed, and may be repaired by resetting the user password.

This may point to the problem… MYUSER is my main user for which I reset the password in the TN GUI. Which configuration without the secret seed is it referring to? Any ideas? Not sure what I should have done differently on restoring the config.

Should I file a bug about this? This is not an “obvious” issue to find.