Re: FN-FORUM: Dreamweaver MX on MAC FTP failures using Ntl

date posted 15th August 2003 15:31

hahahaha!

you're welcome man :-D

have a good w/end - i'm off for a pint now!


On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 03:39 PM, Rob Colton wrote:

>
> Woohooooooo
>
> I think you cracked it man, I had PASV set in the MAC but not the DWMX
> Settings.
>
> I love you and want your babies. Metaphorically speaking that is.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Luke
> Perman
> Sent: 14 August 2003 18:49
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Dreamweaver MX on MAC FTP failures using Ntl
>
>
>
> hi rob
>
> historically i have had ftp troubles with dreamweaver on the mac...
> and although i don't use the ftp part of dreamweaver any more (i now
> use Golive for all my web building) i did have a similar issue with
> golives ftp and ntl broadband when i got the connection installed last
> month... it appears the problem was down to the softwares internal ftp
> settings.
>
> in os x, you can change the ftp connection to be PASV in the network
> control panel under 'proxies', which is what you need to use on these
> types of internet connections. but you also need to set the FTP client
> inside your web software to use PASV mode also. i found this in the
> advanced tab of the site settings panel in Golive. perhaps there is a
> similar tab in dreamweaver?
>
> anyhow, that should be the solution to your problem. i happily upload
> all day long now without a hitch.
>
> luke
>
>
> On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 01:52 PM, Rob Colton wrote:
>
>> Good Afternoon
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience using Dreamweaver MX on a MAC (G4
>> Powerbook
>> with OSX)
>>
>> The OS and machine and even the fact it is DW MX is probably a red
>> herring
>> as we get similar result with IE 6 on a Notebook running Win 2000.
>> Anyway
>> my suspected culprit is Ntl.
>>
>> Sometimes the sync or file upload from dreamweaver works flawlessly,
>> easily
>> transferring 100's of files. However, today and other days it simply
>> wont
>> do it and keeps coming up with a 'Waiting for Server' error. It may
>> load up
>> 2-3 files and then come up with the error or when doing a Sync it
>> simply
>> will not even begin to compare the files without a 'waiting for
>> server'
>> error.
>>
>> Now speaking to our host they reckon that Ntl are to blame, somehow.
>> In
>> fact using a dial-up connection works fine all the time.
>>
>> Anyone got any clues/solutions?
>>
>> Rob
>
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