Command line opening of a "network connection?"

[Jim]

I need to have a computer "phone home" on a scheduled basis. How can I get
scheduler to dial a phone number at a particular time of day to start the
data transfer? Is there a command line interface to open the dialup
connection?

The machine in queston runs Windows XP Pro.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

TIA,

Jim

 

[Keith Miller]

Search Help & Support for "rasdial".

Keith

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Jim" said in news:[email protected]:

I need to have a computer "phone home" on a scheduled basis. How can
I get scheduler to dial a phone number at a particular time of day to
start the data transfer? Is there a command line interface to open
the dialup connection?

The machine in queston runs Windows XP Pro.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

TIA,

Jim

Schedule the program that needs to perform the data transfer. It will need to perform a network connection and that will trigger the dial-up (if you enable "Dial whenever ..." in Internet Options -> Connection). Simply having a connection will not perform a data transfer. You'll a program that does that. The program trying to make a connection will trigger the dial-up. So schedule the program instead.

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[larry]

you can set up PCAnyWhere to do this.

check it out

 

[Jim]

Search Help & Support for "rasdial".

Rasdial does the trick. Thanks for the info.

 

[Keith Miller]

You're welcome.

Keith

Rasdial does the trick. Thanks for the info.