dial up networking from a Windows Service

[Davide Bedin]

Our .net application needs to open a dial up network connection to reach the
internet and send and receive emails (we use a third party component for the
email).

Using wininet.ddl and rasapi32.dll I can list the connections and connect to
a specific named connection.
If the application is launched as a windows forms application it is able to
get the connections defined in the user profile.

This application has to move inside a Windows service application, where the
application runs in the context of the account assigned to the service,
typically local system.
If I assign a specific user account to the Windows service the application
has access to the same profile information (and to the dial up connections)
and everything works as expected but it's my last choice.

Is there a way to copy the dial up connection settings from a user profile
to the local system account profile?
Are there other ways to interact with dial up networking from a Windows
service?

thanks,
Davide Bedin