Hi everyone: Any insights into why I may be getting this error? Thanks, Antony On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Carl van Eijk <carl.vaneijk+wpkg at gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 >> > > > |