Thanks - i was under the impression that configuring cloud cache - even if it was only using SMB for a local server - was the recommended configuration due to the reasons listed here
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fslogix/cloud-cache-resiliency-availability-cncpt
The error messages actually turned out to be that i had accidentally enabled Office containers, without defining a location for the office container.... once i removed that - the error messages went away.