I would have to agree with the blurb below your message. Unless those files are *huge*, there shouldn't be a problem copying them locally and running them from there. If you're writing the .exe's, you may even want to have a small one that gets downloaded, gets ran and it goes to the web address and downloads the files it needs automatically. (depending how fancy you want to get) The other option is to make one big file that gets run and doesn't look for other files. That'd do without the dependency. The two factors to consider are these: 1) LAN speed. If the local intranet is all on the LAN, then any of those options should be fine. 100baseT should be able to handle that. If some are across the WAM, that'd be something to consider. 2) If you're only doing the install once, you might want to sacrifice speed for reliability. Better to get it done right than to muck it up. But if this will be a frequently ran process from the web location, speed may be optimal. -M -----Original Message----- From: Jason Barnett [mailto:jasbarne@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 1:19 PM To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: running an exe Please send all responses to the list, not to me personally. Thanks. *** Begin e-mail message *** This is only for use on local intranet!! The problem is I want to install the software which comprises of 4 files (setup.exe,setup.w02,setup.w03,setup.w04) from a link on the intrAnet. It works fine on the local machine, but as soon as I try across the network, it obviously wont find the second file to install. Ie. Access the link from a remote machine, and install locally on that remote machine. Is the best way to copy the files locally, or is there a better method? > yes, I would just copy the files locally unless you have a *lot* of updates to > do (either often or just a lot of machines). Just not worth the risk IMO... > even if it's only an intranet right now, this would be very easy to forget > about if / when you start making outside connections. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Barnett [mailto:jasbarne@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 05 November 2004 09:40 PM To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: running an exe Why would you want to do this? Blindly installing applications from web links is *a bad idea* and dialog boxes are there to help protect users. Heck from the way you asked your question I'm not even sure - are you the user or the provider? Give us a little more than this to go on and we'll see if we can't help you out more. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
