activating a dial-up connection from cygwin

[Randall R Schulz]

Hey, Sam,

Where were you when I was looking for this way back when?

That's two lacunae in as many days:

     rasdial
     mkshortcut

Ignorance is _not_ bliss!

Thanks to you and Luke Kendall for the enlightenment.

RRS


At 07:46 2003-07-25, Sam Edge wrote:
>"Rob" <rob2@siklos.ca> wrote in
><0d1001c352b5$3e6328f0$6c0aa8c0@adexainc.com>
>in gmane.os.cygwin on Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:01:28 -0400:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if there was any way to activate an existing windows 2000
> > dial-up connection from the cygwin command line.
> >
> > The reason I want to know is because I have a shell script that
> > automatically backs up files to a remote computer (which is only accessible
> > through a vpn connection).  Since I don't want to maintain the VPN
> > connection all the time, I need a way to start it up (and possibly shut it
> > down) from the command line.
>
>Try typing
>     rasdial /help
>from a command line.
>
>It's a built-in in NT, 2k and (I think) XP and works fine for me from
>CMD.EXE or bash.
>
>There's a freeware (or perhaps shareware) version available for 9x/Me
>as well. You'll have to Google for that.
>
>Regards,
>--
>Sam Edge


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