I do have a quite similar problem mapping my Toshiba FlashAirs. After upgrading to 1709 I started getting the error 53, Rollback and/or clean installation with 1703 does work without any problems.
SMB v1 is still installed after an upgrade (15 days) as noted in MSKB:
Problem persists on different machines with different FlashAirs (Rev 3 & 4).
Would like to stop playing sd card jockey.... :)
1703: https://abload.de/img/flashair_v17038fjqs.jpg
1709: abload.de/img/flashair_v1709cekje.jpg
bye, para--
p.s.edit: I wasn't sure if I should post this as an answer. But I couldn't comment as I've just registered to this board. And as this was
Didn't look much further into the first occurance of someone exactly describing what happened after 1703issue. My problem is "solved" by using -> 1709 I just hadnet use letter: http://ip instead for my FlashAir cards and so far it seems to post..work well.