[AccessD] Programatically launch a Dial-Up Networking Connect ion?

What a maroon!  I'm thinking in terms of APIs, and it turns out all I
have to do is trigger a batch file that runs rasdial and mstsc
commands.

Typical of me to overcomplicate something simple.  ;)

-Christopher-

---- Original Message ----
From: Mark.Mitsules at ngc.com
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com, 
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Programatically launch a Dial-Up Networking
Connect ion?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 05:53:26 -0400

>Windows 2000 help lists a topic called "Automating the dial-up logon 
>process
>by using Windows scripting".  It also mentions the location of sample
>scripts.  Would that be of use to you?
>
>
>Mark
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Hawkins [mailto:clh at christopherhawkins.com] 
>Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 4:08 PM
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: [AccessD] Programatically launch a Dial-Up Networking 
>Connection?
>
>
>This would be for a WinXP machine.
>
>I've been googling like mad, but what few code snippets I found were
>all for LAN connections, not dial-up.
>
>All I need to do is launch a named connection without requiring the
>user to provide any input.  Just the mouse click.
>
>Has anyone done this before?  I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be
>using explorer.exe or wininet.dll, or how, or when or why?
>
>I'll keep Googling.  But if anybody has code...
>
>-Christopher-
>
>
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