Software Deployment via URL

[PH_Luke]

Our company has many remote users and we are looking for a way to deploy software to those computers via url. I have attempted to replace the Package Share with a url and it returns errors. Has anyone had any luck with this? Any suggestions?

[yayitazale]

PH_Luke wrote:
Our company has many remote users and we are looking for a way to deploy software to those computers via url. I have attempted to replace the Package Share with a url and it returns errors. Has anyone had any luck with this? Any suggestions?

I made this to work using this tool:

https://github.com/sgreben/http-file-server

I installed on the same server where lives lansweeper but you can use another one too. Then on the deployments I use this steps:

1. First I create a directory if doesn't exist with:

   mkdir C:\Temp\

   
   
2. Then I get the file into that dir:

   curl.exe -s -o C:\Temp\XXXX.msi http://url_of_your_server:8080/XXXX.msi

   
   
3. Then I execute de installer from the local folder
   
4. Finally I delete the file:

   del C:\Temp\XXXX.msi

Hope is usefull for you. I think this method is more secure than using SMB folders. Anyway, you can do this using an FTP server as curl can get files from http, ftp and more. I think Lansweeper would add a embedded fileserver to achieve this instead of using an external server, where you can upload the executable files with an upload button.

[PeterJG]

the only thing i can think of about doing this have server setup to publish your packageshare directory using http and load wget onto user pc and issue wget download command to pull the package over http from server and execute locally.

[sullivane]

Not sure this would be possible, at least not easily. Obviously, the deployment has to see both the target asset and the network share that houses the install. Unless you open up a network share to the Internet you can't really do it with Lansweeper. Even if you did, I am not sure if Lansweeper would work for this, that would have to be answered by the devs.

You can always look into AutoIT, which is scripting that allows you to disable user keyboard mouse and do the clicking for the user. You can turn the script into an EXE, and have it do input and any clicking needed for the install. I THINK you can even embed the install in the EXE. I know for a fact you can embed files, I do not know if there is a size limit.

Then they user could maybe go to an FTP site and download the file?