Comment 18 for bug 60277

a co-worker and I were experiencing the same problems on our Ubuntu 6.10 (fresh) installs, I happened to drop by here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122292

and the posted work-around:

Modify the following file as noted below and this will fix your problem.

/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/smb-module.conf
 #smb: [daemon] libsmb ----> commented out
 smb: libsmb.so ----> added

that works, for me at least. haven't tried it on the other unit yet. of note is that one of the posters in the thread -clearly- states that this work-around is "quite wrong"