Dreamweaver CS5 - "A FTP error occured, Cannot make connection to host

[AnrBjotk]

So, please help me. There must be a million threads like this, but for some reason there are NO real solutions. I've now tried:
Dreamweaver 8
Dreamweaver CS5
Changing DNS-server
With SFTP and plain FTP

It must be said that neither Filezilla nor Fetch can connect.

This message states, as you know, that the reason could be wrong login info, however, the login info IS correct, since I can access my page on godaddy, and that has the same login info.

I am seriously begging you guys, please help me.

T

 

[vacunita]

Since even stand alone FTP clients can connect, It is probably a Firewall issue.

You'll have to make sure the firewall is not blocking the FTP port 21.



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[AnrBjotk]

Thank you, and YES, this is what I always thought it must be. However, how do I change this?
Cause I have disabled firewall completely with no change...

 

[AnrBjotk]

I tried opening it using info from another thread using this command:

sudo ipfw add allow tcp from 21 to 21

But no go...

 

[AnrBjotk]

I also tried the following in terminal:

telnet my-domain-name.com 21

which gave:

Trying 68.178.254.100...
Connected to mydomain.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 Microsoft FTP Service

 

[vacunita]

So the Built in FTP client does connect. This means the port is not blocked.

Perhaps the Applications are the ones being blocked?

Try Internet Explorer
ftp://my-domain-name.com:21

If it connects you should be able to browse the files.

Try the IP address (68.178.254.100) in any of the FTP clients giving trouble see what happens, they may be having difficulty with the DNS conversion.





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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

Behind the Web, Tips and Tricks for Web Development.

http://behindtheweb.blogspot.com/

 

[AnrBjotk]

In Explorer it cannot access ftp://my-domain-name.com:21,
or, it won't show up, it just keeps loading the page but never getting there. It TRIES to receive some image files, but is stuck at zero kb

 

[vacunita]

Something is blocking the other applications if the command line ftp client is successfully connecting.

Either that or the configuration is the issue. I'd start looking at the actual FTP configuration, like passive mode Vs static, and what type of authentication the server requires: SSL, TLS etc.

I would also post this in forum581 in case it may related to some connection issue.

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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

Behind the Web, Tips and Tricks for Web Development.

http://behindtheweb.blogspot.com/