Mobile account no longer syncs since 10.6.7 client update ??

My mobile account no longer connects and syncs to our network samba store since upgrading to 10.6.7 (client)
This is no fun
29/03/2011 09:59:33 com.apple.coreservicesd[73] NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/03/2011 09:59:33 com.apple.coreservicesd[73] NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/03/2011 09:59:33 /usr/libexec/mount_url[3787] smb_mount: mount failed to myserver.com/myusername : syserr = Authentication error
29/03/2011 09:59:34 /System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/NetAuthAgent[3788] smb_mount: mount failed to myserver.com/myusername : syserr = Authentication error
29/03/2011 09:59:34 /System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/NetAuthAgent[3788] smb_mount: mount failed to myserver.com/myusername : syserr = Authentication error

Hi welly
I just got a similar issue and possibly found a (really ugly) workaround.
My Mobile Clients do their initial sync fine, also background sync worked as expected. I ran into troubles as soon as I tried to sync manually. And the logout syncs didn't work at all. The issue only occured on third party smb servers, afp currently works fine for me with the same configuration.
Additionally the poor clients desperately try to connect to the network home again and again and again and thus cause a lot of very ugly traffic on the network.
I kind of "solved" this as I realized that other shares from the same server are mounted on the machines as well. I unmounted them with the Finder and suddenly all the syncs worked like a charm..
I'm really curious if this is a newly introduced bug with 10.6.7 or 10.6.6, I had machines with 10.6.5 (or was it 10.6.4?) properly running with mobile accounts in the same setup.
Here are my error messages from system.log
Jun 21 15:02:36 machinename gssd-agent[403]: Error returned by svc_mach_gss_init_sec_context:
Jun 21 15:02:36 machinename gssd-agent[403]:           Major error = 851968: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Jun 21 15:02:36 machinename gssd-agent[403]:           Minor error = 100005:
Jun 21 15:02:36 machinename /System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/NetAuthAgent[402]: smb_mount: mount failed to serverfqdn/home$ : syserr = Authentication error
Jun 21 15:02:36 machinename gssd-agent[403]: Error returned by svc_mach_gss_init_sec_context:
Jun 21 15:02:36 machinename gssd-agent[403]:           Major error = 851968: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Jun 21 15:02:36 machinename gssd-agent[403]:           Minor error = 100005:
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