The other suggestions about starting the VPN before login are good. Sometimes that's not always practical, though. So what I've done is to provide a copy of the login script, or at least the drive mapping part, as a .bat file on the desktop. If they're working offline and realize they need to connect, they can make the connection, run the batch file, and have their drives mapped.
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