Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ronald set sender to blytkerchan@users.sourceforge.net using -f Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:34:39 +0200 From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak To: Rob Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: activating a dial-up connection from cygwin Message-ID: <20030725143439.GA5789@linux_rln.harvest> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <0d1001c352b5$3e6328f0$6c0aa8c0@adexainc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0d1001c352b5$3e6328f0$6c0aa8c0@adexainc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Disclaimer: I had nothing to do with it - I swear! X-loop: linux_rln.harvest On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:01:28AM -0400, Rob wrote: > I was wondering if there was any way to activate an existing windows 2000 > dial-up connection from the cygwin command line. None that I know of, but.. > 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. This may be of interest to you: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wininet/wininet/establishing_a_dial_up_connection_to_the_internet.asp With this info, it should be pretty straight-forward to make a home-grown util that does exactly what you want. Don't forget to share it when you've got it working ;) HTH rlc -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/