i  am having problems setting up a page to allow the download or run of

an EXE to do an installation routine with IIS 6.0 on windows 2003
server
msi runs fine

Internet Explorer cannot download esinst.exe from myserver


Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The
requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try
again later.

there is no sub error with 404


i have tried web extensions but no use its so slow and never completes



Thanks.

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What about the win32 status code? is the reference path correct?
You don't need the web service extension if you just want to provide
download for the exe file.

Read more -
http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/ar...S_6_Part_2.aspx

double check the substatus code again.
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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.iis.net/
http://www.iis-resources.com/
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/


"techy" <ashish.techy@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>i  am having problems setting up a page to allow the download or run of
>
> an EXE to do an installation routine with IIS 6.0 on windows 2003
> server
> msi runs fine
>
> Internet Explorer cannot download esinst.exe from myserver
>
>
> Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The
> requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try
> again later.
>
> there is no sub error with 404
>
>
> i have tried web extensions but no use its so slow and never completes
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>

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