It's very old. :) Same program dates back to SLIP connections. It's called rasdial.exe.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Friday, April 3, 2015 2:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Starting VPN connections from non-admin accounts I thought we'd figured this out but ran into a roadblock I'm hoping some can help with. My searches have brought up lots of solutions to starting programs as admin and avoiding UAC, etc., but I've yet to find a way to start the normal VPN connection that gets created with the CMAK profiles. We've added our remote users to the "Network Configuration Operators" group on the local machine so they should be able to manipulate routes, etc., but in order for the CMAK profile to connect it tries to run CMRoute.exe which runs elevated. If the user is in the local admin group that's no problem, but when they aren't it either just fails if UAC is turned off, or prompts for credentials if UAC is turned on. I found several references to creating elevated shortcuts, etc., and even one which created a scheduled task to do the dirty work with a local admin account that got called by whatever shortcut you create. The problem is that I haven't figured out how to start that VPN connection from the scheduled task and I also haven't found a way to modify the properties on the shortcut it creates on the desktop. The object itself is just shown as a GUID in the shortcut. Can anyone point me to the related executable, a way to start the connection from a scheduled task, or some other magical thing I haven't thought of trying yet? Thanks -------------------- Melvin Backus | Sr. Systems Engineer | Byers Engineering Company | 404.497.1565 Service Desk | 404-497-1599 | http://servicedesk.byers.com -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.
