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/
