[wireties]

I can't see anything obviously wrong with your example code. Here is a sample of the output of nmppc:

...
U taskRestart
U taskResume
U taskSpawn
U taskSuspend
U time
U tolower
U toupper
U trcStack
U unldByModuleId
U vsprintf
00000154 D wpi_error_s_CommandIllegalUse
00000118 D wpi_error_s_CompressorUndefined
0000010c D wpi_error_s_DriveUninitialized
U write
...


But there are a lot of symbols in there to go through manually. Since you have two laptops with the same Wind River and NI install I would look for reasons that the FTP session might fail (which is what the download really does). Do you have any way to monitor network traffic to see the FTP session (on the wire) when start the download? Is it possible you have firewall settings stopping the FTP session?