If you have recently upgraded to either Windows XP Service Pack 2 OR McAfee VirusScan 8.0i, you may be experiencing some problems with either FTP, FrontPage, or Dreamweaver not connecting.

First check to see if you have McAfee 8.0i installed. By default, this version of McAfee includes features designed to block programs from performing unwanted tasks. Unfortunately one of these features also blocks FTP access. This can cause WS-FTP, FrontPage, and Dreamweaver to not connect to your website like usual. In order to fix this, you will need to turn off the FTP block. You can do this by right clicking on the VShield and selecting properties. You will now see an console window, inside the window there will be an option for Access Protection. Double click on this and an Access Protection Properties window will appear. Part way down you will notice two checkboxes with options for incoming and outgoing FTP. Uncheck both of these.

If this hasn't fixed your problem and you have installed Windows XP Service Pack 2, you may need to turn off your firewall. Here is a link to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center on how to disable your Windows XP Service Pack 2 firewall.