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.
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

Hej, Bo -

If you find out how to do this, please post it. I searched
for months for a way to transfer all my dialup connectoids
when I moved from Win98 to WinXP Pro, but I finally had
to do it manually - which turned out not to be so bad. Since
all the dialup connectoids are likely to have the same set of
parameters except for the telephone numbers, you can just
keep cloning one master connectoid and just enter a different
telephone number in each one. It's tedious, but not really as
hard as you might imagine. Just set up one complete
connectoid to use as a master copy. Then rt-click the "master"
connectoid and select "Create Copy" from the drop-down list.
Then, in the new connectoid, enter a telephone number. That's
all. I had 55 telephone numbers, and it took less than half an
hour. But with a list of 98 telephone numbers, it might take you
longer. Have a beer, och ha det så bra.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Bo Berglund]

"Bo Berglund" skrev:

Hej, Bo -

If you find out how to do this, please post it. I searched
for months for a way to transfer all my dialup connectoids
when I moved from Win98 to WinXP Pro, but I finally had
to do it manually - which turned out not to be so bad. Since

I have now found how to get *all* of the dialup 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

 

[Timothy Daniels]

"Bo Berglund" har skrivet:

I have now found how to get *all* of the dialup 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

Hmmm... My %systemroot%\system32\ras folder has only
..nf and .scp files - no .pbk files and nothing called "rasphone"
in it or in the entire system.

*TimDaniels*