On 12 February 2013 22:31, Antony Awaida <antony at bizappcenter.com> wrote: > Hi Carl: > > Thanks for the suggestion. I am not very familiar with powershell. > Getting an error when i try to run any of the commands above: > > Thanks, Antony > > c:\WPKG>powershell -command "(new-object > System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('htt > p://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip','C:\5MB.zip')" > Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s): "An exception > occurred d > uring a WebClient request." > At line:1 char:47 > + (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile <<<< (' > http://ipv4.download.th > inkbroadband.com/5MB.zip','C:\5MB.zip') > + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], > MethodInvocationException > + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException > > Hi Antony, Please can you reply to the whole list, perhaps other might have some more insight where I fail. That's just an example, can you download the file directly via a browser, or do you have an internal file you can try instead? Do you have a proxy perhaps causing trouble? Or local permissions. It could be a syntactical issue if you're running an older powershell version. I can;t replicate the issue right now... C > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Carl van Eijk <carl.vaneijk at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On 12 February 2013 21:34, antonya <antony at bizappcenter.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hi there: > >> > >> We are using WPKG over HTTP. Msi installs work fine: msiexec /i > >> http://someserverurl. > >> > >> What about .exe? Does anyone have experience with installing .exe from a > >> remote server? what is the "install cmd" to install a .exe from a remote > >> server? > >> > > > > I've not tried this, but perhaps invoking a powershell command might > work... > > > > powershell -command "(new-object > > System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile(' > http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip','C:\5MB.zip')" > > > > something like > > > > > > <install cmd= 'powershell -command "(new-object > > System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://servername/installpackage.exe > ','C:\installs\installpackage.exe')"'> > > > > > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Antony > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> > http://old.nabble.com/Installing-an-.exe-from-a-remote-server-tp35016031p35016031.html > >> Sent from the WPKG - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> wpkg-users mailing list archives >> > >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> wpkg-users mailing list > >> wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org > >> http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Carl van Eijk > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/attachments/20130212/52003d83/attachment.html> |