I can reproduce the issue:
...
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd-network[11025]: Couldn't create directory
monitor on smb://x-gnome-default-workgroup/. Error: Operation not
supported by backend
...
But I don't have any libgnomevfs installed:
j@corylus:/proc$ apt-cache policy libgnomevfs*
libgnomevfs2-bin:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.24.4-6.1+b2
Version table:
1:2.24.4-6.1+b2 900
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main amd64
Packages
libgnomevfs2-dev:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.24.4-6.1+b2
Version table:
1:2.24.4-6.1+b2 900
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main amd64
Packages
libgnomevfs2-0-dbg:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.24.4-6.1+b2
Version table:
1:2.24.4-6.1+b2 900
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main amd64
Packages
libgnomevfs2-common:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.24.4-6.1
Version table:
1:2.24.4-6.1 900
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main amd64
Packages
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main i386 Packages
libgnomevfs2-0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.24.4-6.1+b2
Version table:
1:2.24.4-6.1+b2 900
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main amd64
Packages
libgnomevfs2-extra:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.24.4-6.1+b2
Version table:
1:2.24.4-6.1+b2 900
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main amd64
Packages
As you see, this is on debian stable. Lot's of spam in syslog about
/var/cache/samba creation attempts.
--Joshua
