Hi all

Does anyone know if it's possible to create a PPTP VPN via a command line rather than using the New Connection Wizard?

I thought that NETSH might be the answer but I can't figure it out...

Any help greatly appreciated..

Regards

Paul

Create once the vpn connection by wizard and backup the .pbk file. After you can use command line :

Connect

rasdial NameOfConnection user pass /phonebook:file.pbk

Disconnect

rasdial NameOfConnection /disconnect

Sample .pbk file

[NameOfConnection]
ShowMonitorIconInTaskBar=0
IpPrioritizeRemote=0

MEDIA=rastapi
Port=VPN9-0
Device=Miniport réseau étendu (L2TP)

DEVICE=rastapi
PhoneNumber=ip or dns name

Also, if you have a 2003 server you have access to, you can use the CMAK to create one.

Thank you both for your responses.

From the info provided by Sonic I now know that it's the contents of the .pbk file I need to create (I have about 30 VPNs I need to add and I didn't want to have to add them manually, so was hoping there was some kind of import I could do).

Is there a way of "importing" these details into my existing .pbk file? I've had a look at rasphone and rasdial but could not see an option to do this.

@cluberti

I was not aware of this tool but it will certainly come in use in the future

Thanks again

Paul

You can add the content to your actual .pbk file with batch like "echo xxxx >>file.pbk"