Our VPN is set up using Cisco routers across the different connections. My laptop here on the LAN itself has no problem with it's mapped drives and of course creating new ones weither by IP or hostname. When I take it home and use the cisco utility to connect to our work VPN, all the drive mappings I've created here at work, work fine when, but if I try to create new ones I need to do so by IP.

At any rate guys, I took this issue back to my General Manager and pointed out to him that no one aside from me and a few others will be drive mapping while at home anyways.

Jens, Kdyer and Richard, thanks for your patience and great advice. I apologize for monopolizing any time.