How to transfer Dialup Connections to new XP-pro laptop?

[Bo Berglund]

I am moving into a new laptop that has XP Pro SP2 on it. My old laptop
(also XP-Pro SP2) is still available and it contains zillions of
stuff...

Most of the interesting things are now moved by copying the
appropriate items from one PC to the other. But one thing is really
bugging me and this is the I transfer of all of my 93 dialup entries
with all settings intact...

I have googled for hours but only found useless advice such as
exporting a registry key to get the settings. Well, the registry key
suggested did not even contain the dialup entries...

The Files and Settings Transfer Wizard does *not* have an item for
dialup transfer so that is out too...
When I moved last then I had an NT4 or possibly W2000 rasphone.pbk
file that contained all of these items, but it looks like XP keeps
dialups in a different way. Where???

Is there *really* no way to move these connection items over???


Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

 

[Timothy Daniels]

"Bo Berglund" skrev:

I am moving into a new laptop that has XP Pro SP2 on it.
[..........]
But one thing is really bugging me and this is the transfer
of all of my 93 dialup entries with all settings intact...

See my answer in microsoft.public.wondowsxp.setup_deployment.
Basically, make one connectoid and replicate it 97 times, each
time changing the telephone number. Ha det...

*TimDaniels*

 

[Nepatsfan]

I am moving into a new laptop that has XP Pro SP2 on it. My
old laptop (also XP-Pro SP2) is still available and it
contains zillions of stuff...

Most of the interesting things are now moved by copying the
appropriate items from one PC to the other. But one thing is
really bugging me and this is the I transfer of all of my 93
dialup entries with all settings intact...

I have googled for hours but only found useless advice such
as exporting a registry key to get the settings. Well, the
registry key suggested did not even contain the dialup
entries...

The Files and Settings Transfer Wizard does *not* have an
item for dialup transfer so that is out too...
When I moved last then I had an NT4 or possibly W2000
rasphone.pbk file that contained all of these items, but it
looks like XP keeps dialups in a different way. Where???

Is there *really* no way to move these connection items
over???


Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

I have never had to do this so I have no idea whether it will
work or not but you might want to take a look at this article:

HOW TO: Save and Restore Dial-up Connections in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;284269&sd=tech

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[Bo Berglund]

I have never had to do this so I have no idea whether it will
work or not but you might want to take a look at this article:

HOW TO: Save and Restore Dial-up Connections in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;284269&sd=tech

No, in fact there was a pbk file there but it contained only one or
two entries.
But I have now found how to get *all* of the entries transferred:

1. Copy %systemroot%\system32\ras\pasphone.pbk to the same location on
the new PC.

2. Restart the new PC (this was a step I did not know was needed)

After the PC comes back up again it will register the new connections
and modify the modem settings, most probably the modem in the new PC
is not the same as in the old one. This took a couple of minutes in my
case.

3. Now with the connectoids in place I tried one and it turns out that
all info is there *except* the user/password login combination.
So if there are many connections all with different logins and
passwords then there is a lot of work still to do. But anyway the
basic stuff has been done by the rasphone.pbk file transfer.


Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

 

[Sharon F]

Now with the connectoids in place I tried one and it turns out that
all info is there *except* the user/password login combination.

The is "by design" in XP and considered a security feature.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Bo Berglund wrote:
[...........]
Copy %systemroot%\system32\ras\rasphone.pbk to the same
location on the new PC.
[....]

Now with the connectoids in place I tried one and it turns out that
all info is there *except* the user/password login combination.

The is "by design" in XP and considered a security feature.

Sharon - when I check the C:\system32\ras folder in my WinXP Pro
machine, I see only the files:
cis.scp
pad.inf
pppmenu.scp
slip.scp
slipmenu.scp
switch.inf

and no "rasphone.pbk" file. Do you know where else it might be?
I've tried a search on the name and the suffix, but nothing turns up.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Sharon F]

Sharon - when I check the C:\system32\ras folder in my WinXP Pro
machine, I see only the files:
cis.scp
pad.inf
pppmenu.scp
slip.scp
slipmenu.scp
switch.inf

and no "rasphone.pbk" file. Do you know where else it might be?
I've tried a search on the name and the suffix, but nothing turns up.

Did you read the article referenced by Nepatsfan? It tells the location of
the .PBK file. You're looking in the wrong folder.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Thanks, Sharon. I was looking in the folder that Bo Berglund
had mentioned. I wonder how his rasphone.pbk file got into
the C:\WINDOWS\system32\ras folder. It sounds like a
reasonable place for it to be. Is that a temporary storage for
the file?

*TimDaniels*

 

[Sharon F]

Thanks, Sharon. I was looking in the folder that Bo Berglund
had mentioned. I wonder how his rasphone.pbk file got into
the C:\WINDOWS\system32\ras folder. It sounds like a
reasonable place for it to be. Is that a temporary storage for
the file?

Hi Tim. Sorry, I don't know how or why Bo's .pbk files are in that folder
and I don't have a dialup modem on this computer to investigate further.