Re: activating a dial-up connection from cygwin

2003-07-26 Thread Mark Ord
Sam Edge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. In 9x you can use rnaui.dll the way Explorer does when

Re: activating a dial-up connection from cygwin

2003-07-25 Thread Rob
sweet deal - that's perfect! Thanks a million Sam. Rob. > 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

Re: activating a dial-up connection from cygwin

2003-07-25 Thread 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <[EMAI

Re: activating a dial-up connection from cygwin

2003-07-25 Thread Sam Edge
"Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: activating a dial-up connection from cygwin

2003-07-25 Thread Randall R Schulz
Rob, At 07:01 2003-07-25, Rob wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there was any way to activate an existing windows 2000 dial-up connection from the cygwin command line. I don't know of an explicit command that will do this, and once upon a time before I received the blessing of DSL, I did look for

Re: activating a dial-up connection from cygwin

2003-07-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
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

activating a dial-up connection from cygwin

2003-07-25 Thread Rob
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).