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Ras phone books in XP Pro
I use a RAS dialer component in Delphi.
Currently I just use the default phone book and this works fine most of the time.
I have got a user who is using a tablet PC and the component says the dialer is not in the phone book.
They can connect manually. Unfortuanately I don't have access to the table PC to check the precise error.
In looking at this, there is or was a default phone book called rasphone.pbk and for users there were additional phone books called username.pbk.
In XP Pro (or my copy in any case) there does not appear to be a rasphone.pbk. I am not sure where the dialer entries are stored. They might have been rolled into a mdb database or this information might be stored in the registry. I just am not sure.
Can anyone tell me where RAS (dialer information) is stored in XP Pro if one has not set up a personal phone book (pbk) file.
I have installed pbadmin.exe but this shows no phone books on my copy of XP Pro.
The question is if a user has infomation stored somewhere else other than the default location (where ever that is) how can I import there dialer information into the defaullt location?
I found this on a Microsoft site
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 284269
HOW TO: Save and Restore Dial-up Connections in Windows XP
1. Locate the Rasphone.pbk file in the %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Con
Note The Application Data folder is a hidden folder. To view the folder, follow these steps:
1. Open the All Users folder, and then click Folder Options on the Tools menu.
2. Click View, click Show hidden files and folders, and then click OK.
2. After you have created all your connections, copy the Rasphone.pbk to a safe location, and then copy the Rasphone.pbk file to the %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Con
Note When you replace the Rasphone.pbk file, you are prompted to confirm the file replacement. Click Yes to replace the file.
3. Restart the computer to view the connections.
The problem is when I go to the above folder there is no Rasphone.pbk !!!!??????!!!!
The only file present is one called sharedaccess.ini.
If I go to %systemfolder%\system32\RA
So where is the phone book information ????
Currently I just use the default phone book and this works fine most of the time.
I have got a user who is using a tablet PC and the component says the dialer is not in the phone book.
They can connect manually. Unfortuanately I don't have access to the table PC to check the precise error.
In looking at this, there is or was a default phone book called rasphone.pbk and for users there were additional phone books called username.pbk.
In XP Pro (or my copy in any case) there does not appear to be a rasphone.pbk. I am not sure where the dialer entries are stored. They might have been rolled into a mdb database or this information might be stored in the registry. I just am not sure.
Can anyone tell me where RAS (dialer information) is stored in XP Pro if one has not set up a personal phone book (pbk) file.
I have installed pbadmin.exe but this shows no phone books on my copy of XP Pro.
The question is if a user has infomation stored somewhere else other than the default location (where ever that is) how can I import there dialer information into the defaullt location?
I found this on a Microsoft site
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 284269
HOW TO: Save and Restore Dial-up Connections in Windows XP
1. Locate the Rasphone.pbk file in the %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Con
Note The Application Data folder is a hidden folder. To view the folder, follow these steps:
1. Open the All Users folder, and then click Folder Options on the Tools menu.
2. Click View, click Show hidden files and folders, and then click OK.
2. After you have created all your connections, copy the Rasphone.pbk to a safe location, and then copy the Rasphone.pbk file to the %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Con
Note When you replace the Rasphone.pbk file, you are prompted to confirm the file replacement. Click Yes to replace the file.
3. Restart the computer to view the connections.
The problem is when I go to the above folder there is no Rasphone.pbk !!!!??????!!!!
The only file present is one called sharedaccess.ini.
If I go to %systemfolder%\system32\RA
So where is the phone book information ????
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Thanks for that. The pbadmin.exe tool supplied on the XP Pro Install CD, has the ability to create new phone books in jet (access) databases (*.mdb). Do you know how XP uses these in conjunction with rasphone.pbk?
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The c:\documents and settings\...\pbk\rasphone.
Since you don't have access to this tablet PC, perhaps it would be useful for your application to search the harddrive for phonebook files (if it's not found in the default location), or give the user the option to browse for it. I can help with this too, if you'd like.
Of course, you can create your own phone book by passing a new .pbk filename to the rascreatephonebookentry() function. If none of this is what you want, you can instead store the phonebook data in your own way (xml, database, registry, ini, whatever) and just create the phone book entry every time you want to dial. Then you can specify any phone book path and not have to search for an existing one. Then, you would really only need the phone book to DIAL the servers, not to keep track of them.