Cannot map a network drive...

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Hello,

I have a Windows Media Center at home and I am the Network Administrator at
my office. I have set up a VPN connection from my Media Center PC to one of
the network servers and can connect just fine. I can create an Exchange
profile on my Media Center PC and view all of my work Exchange Mailbox items
and do everything I want just fine... EXCEPT map a network drive!

I have DFS set up on the work network and from my non-Media Center PC at
home, I can map a drive to: \\myworkdomain.local\shared just fine (assuming
I'm connected via VPN first).

I can also connect using "\\server1.myworkdomain.local\shared" just fine on
my non-Media Center PC.

Or I can connect via "\\192.168.0.2\shared" (192.168.0.2 is the internal ip
address of the server at work with the share on it) on my non-media center PC.

None of these methods works using the Media Center PC. Using
"\\192.168.0.2\shared" method, I'm prompted for a username/password.
Everytime I enter the correct username/password, it just immediately gives me
another dialog to enter it again. I've used every method possible to enter
the username/password:

domain\username
password

username
password

username@xxxxxxxxxx
password

Nothing works. I don't think this is strictly a Media Center issue. I had
some remote users in small office down in FL connecting via VPN and some of
them had this issue from time to time connecting to the network drive. Once
the office grew to about 7 people though, I gave them their own DC servers so
that they logon locally and the problem vanished.

This will not be a good solution for me because Media Center cannot join a
domain.

Can anyone please tell me if there is some other kind of trouble shooting I
can do?

Thanks

JOhn
.

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