Dreamweaver can't connect via FTP...

[Michael D. Spence]

"Dan Vendel *GOF*" <see_my_signature_@_the_bottom_of_the_post.com> wrote in
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> Michael D. Spence wrote:
>

> > under any circumstances. I've tried many systems with passive checked

and

> > not checked.
> >
> > I don't think it's even trying: If I run netmon, I can see ftp from the
> > command line connect just fine, but netmon captures nothing at all when

I

> > try to connect with DW. And it says "An FTP error occurred -- cannot

make

> > connection to host" *INSTANTLY* (in other words, no time delay at all).

>
> Did this happen just now, or have you never connected via DW before?
> Are the password/login correct?
> Are you supposed to use a certain folder, e.g. "public_html" or similar?
> If so, is the path to the folder correct?

The password and login are correct but even if they weren't, you'd expect
some TCP/IP
packets to get trapped by Netmon. It did work ok at one point. I don't use
DW that much;
one day it wasn't happy so I just used a third-party FTP package to transfer
the stuff I needed.
I'd like to fix this, though.

It may have had to do with me trying to set up SSH (and putty and plink).
Don't remember if
it ever recovered from that. Could there be something in the registry?

[Dan Vendel *GOF*]

Michael D. Spence wrote:

> The password and login are correct but even if they weren't, you'd expect
> some TCP/IP
> packets to get trapped by Netmon. It did work ok at one point. I

don't use

> DW that much;
> one day it wasn't happy so I just used a third-party FTP package to

transfer

> the stuff I needed.
> I'd like to fix this, though.
>
> It may have had to do with me trying to set up SSH (and putty and plink).
> Don't remember if
> it ever recovered from that. Could there be something in the registry?

Frankly, I don't know what might be wrong. But I'm asking for info that
I think the more knowledgeable people here need to know to be able to
give you some suggestions. Here's more:
Are you behind a firewall?
Do you have any other aps running in the background, e.g. virus detection?
What's your DW version, platform and os?


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[Michael D. Spence]

"Dan Vendel *GOF*" <see_my_signature_@_the_bottom_of_the_post.com> wrote in
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>
> Frankly, I don't know what might be wrong. But I'm asking for info that
> I think the more knowledgeable people here need to know to be able to
> give you some suggestions. Here's more:
> Are you behind a firewall?

D'OH! What a bonehead...

It was ZoneAlarm. Must've turned off DW months ago (like I said, I don't
use it much). Installing 6.1
made ZA ask again.

Anyway, thanks!