I ran into precisely the same trouble trying to map a drive located on a local workgroup (thepauls) while connected to a Windows 2003 domain over a VPN connection.
I finally got the local drive mapping to work by adding a username and password to the use net command as such:
Code:
use net e: \\pirsig"\DaveE's Documents" password /u:thepauls\DaveE
where password is the user's password and thepauls\DaveE is the local workgroup and username.
The username and password I'm using above are the same as I use to login to the XP machine I want to map the drive on (pirsig).
What's so strange about this is I have two XP machines on the local workgroup (thepauls) and I can map drives on one of them (chesterton) without all this trouble but to map drives on the other listed here (pirsig), I have to go through all this work. Anyone got an idea of what's different between the two?
These two web pages provide more detail and helped me:
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