Initiate a Dial-up Connection from the command line?
Gary Johnson
garyjohn@spk.agilent.com
Fri Feb 29 09:17:00 GMT 2008
On 2008-02-28, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> > I'm running some tests of a radio modem where I need to bring up the
> > Windows Connect Dial-up Connection dialog (Start -> Settings [->
> > Control Panel] -> Network Connections -> Dial-up Connection) and
> > click the Dial button on a Windows box that's inconvenient to get
> > to. It would be much easier if I could ssh to this box (which I
> > can) and just execute some command from the Cygwin bash command
> > line. Is there some Cygwin utility or other method to do this?
>
> Have you tried Windows' rasdial command?
> <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490979.aspx>.
Sweet! I wasn't aware of that command. It took me a while to get
it to work because I couldn't find the phone book and didn't know
what the available connection names were, if any. (Of course the
name is obvious now.) The documentation you pointed me to and my
PC's so-called Help and Support Center claim it's in
systemroot\System32\Ras, but it's actually in /cygdrive/c/Documents
and Settings/All Users/Application
Data/Microsoft/Network/Connections/Pbk. Anyway,
rasdial "Dial-up Connection"
and
rasdial "Dial-up Connection" /disconnect
do the trick. Thank you very much!
Regards,
Gary
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