Re: Client VPN connection

Thanks Eugene, just what I was looking for. I understand using some crazy API
interface to raw com objects is abit over kill but I suppose its more
interesting, anyhow thanks again...

"Eugene Gershnik" wrote:

> firstline is the best line... wrote:
> >
> > Problem: Working within a support enviornment with several remote
> > customers using a different methods of access such as windows vpn
> > client, dial up network, pcanywhere and cisco vpn client. As you can
> > imagine keeping all support staff updated with correct details is a
> > pain in the ar?e.
> >
> > Proposed Solution; I would like to develop a solution preferably
> > using c#
>
> Why C#? In this particular case all you need is probably some combination of
> ..cmd scripts and possibly WSH.
>
> > which uses something similar to the RAS api, unfortantely Im
> > not familar with any such api I can use to intialize vpn sessions
>
> As long as VPN is the Microsoft's one you just use the same RAS API. Note
> that you don't even need an API here. The built-in command-line utility
> rasdial can do this too.
> With regards to other vendors VPN clients you will need to contact them to
> find out whether they support any programmatic or command-line interface.
> (Given the overall quality of their GUI clients I'll bet that they don't
> support any)
>
> > and
> > start remote desktop sessions.
>
> The mstsc.exe (remote desktop client) supports command line interface. Just
> type mstsc.exe /? to see what you can do with it. I am not aware of any
> documented API/COM object that expose similar functionality but if you open
> system32\rdchost.dll in OleView you'll find some interestingly looking
> classes and interfaces there.
>
>
> --
> Eugene
> http://www.gershnik.com
>
>
>
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