Dreamweaver CS3 FTP solution

I've been using DW CS3 for a month now without any problems. All of a
sudden I couldn't connect to any of my sites. When I tried to turn on
Passive FTP the program would freeze and I had to shut it down. I
searched through a bunch of forums and couldn't find a fix. Finally I
checked out a page on Adobe's website which suggested I check my
Windows firewall settings to make sure DW is in the exceptions list.
I went to Control Panel > Windows Security > Manage Settings. DW was
not in the list so I just had to click 'Add Program', select DW and
that fixed it. I have no idea why it would've been removed but this
problem was really annoying and wasted 2 hours of my day. I hardly
ever post anything in Groups or forums but I had to do it this time.

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<4eaeb0f8-d503-4b9b-bd0a-eb84c64a3daf (AT) b25g2000prb (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
rockybutani <rockybutani (AT) gmail (DOT) com> writes

I've been using DW CS3 for a month now without any problems. All of a
sudden I couldn't connect to any of my sites. When I tried to turn on
Passive FTP the program would freeze and I had to shut it down. I
searched through a bunch of forums and couldn't find a fix. Finally I
checked out a page on Adobe's website which suggested I check my
Windows firewall settings to make sure DW is in the exceptions list.
I went to Control Panel > Windows Security > Manage Settings. DW was
not in the list so I just had to click 'Add Program', select DW and
that fixed it.

Could your Firewall program have been updated or upgraded recently?

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Duncan K
Downtown Dalgety Bay

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:33:41 +0100, Duncan Kennedy
<nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) otterson-bg.couk> wrote:

In message
4eaeb0f8-d503-4b9b-bd0a-eb84c64a3daf...oglegroups.com>,
rockybutani <rockybutani (AT) gmail (DOT) com> writes
I've been using DW CS3 for a month now without any problems. All of a
sudden I couldn't connect to any of my sites. When I tried to turn on
Passive FTP the program would freeze and I had to shut it down. I
searched through a bunch of forums and couldn't find a fix. Finally I
checked out a page on Adobe's website which suggested I check my
Windows firewall settings to make sure DW is in the exceptions list.
I went to Control Panel > Windows Security > Manage Settings. DW was
not in the list so I just had to click 'Add Program', select DW and
that fixed it.

Could your Firewall program have been updated or upgraded recently?

Windows FW is flakey
I run Zone Alarm and find that now and then somehow Windows FW has been turned
on again.