AWESOME! Thanks!

I had not been using xp_cmdshell to execute the net use command. I knew I was getting hung up in permissions but just didn't know where. Well, now I guess I will just really hope that a log shipping restore session won't break and all goes smoothly (save the time of re-doing log shipping). Have been testing on testing server and it's looking clean.

EXEC sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', 1

GO

RECONFIGURE

GO

exec master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'NET USE.......