platypussy
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Hi!
Just signed up here. I'm a bit new to contemporary web admin, having not worked on my own site since the '90s. My osX (Tiger) firewall seems to be interfering with uploading & downloading files while I'm working on my website (my isp at the moment is uniserve.com, but the sites I'm working on are both at pacificcoast.net - owned by uniserve - and 1and1.com, and the up/downloading issues are identical). Basically, whether using Fetch or Dreaweaver, and regardless of the various firewall options & passive/not-passive ftp settings I've tried, the transfer times out frequently & then I have to reconnect, sometimes several times. The problem goes away only if I turn BOTH my firewall & passive transfer OFF. I'm worried that in this state I expose my system too much? I'm on dsl, & there's a router in the house, connecting 3 macs & a pc (usually only 2 of the macs are on, both running 10.4), but there is no security set up on the router (Belkin wireless) as far as I know (I just set it up with all defaults). I don't want to have to keep turning the firewall on & off every time I want to transfer a few files (I'm set up so that Dreamweaver automatically updates the files on the site on every save, and I like it that way, since I then immediately check it out on various browsers). Is there a particular port I should be opening? Should I just not worry about my firewall being down for hours while I set up the site? Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks, Goesta
Just signed up here. I'm a bit new to contemporary web admin, having not worked on my own site since the '90s. My osX (Tiger) firewall seems to be interfering with uploading & downloading files while I'm working on my website (my isp at the moment is uniserve.com, but the sites I'm working on are both at pacificcoast.net - owned by uniserve - and 1and1.com, and the up/downloading issues are identical). Basically, whether using Fetch or Dreaweaver, and regardless of the various firewall options & passive/not-passive ftp settings I've tried, the transfer times out frequently & then I have to reconnect, sometimes several times. The problem goes away only if I turn BOTH my firewall & passive transfer OFF. I'm worried that in this state I expose my system too much? I'm on dsl, & there's a router in the house, connecting 3 macs & a pc (usually only 2 of the macs are on, both running 10.4), but there is no security set up on the router (Belkin wireless) as far as I know (I just set it up with all defaults). I don't want to have to keep turning the firewall on & off every time I want to transfer a few files (I'm set up so that Dreamweaver automatically updates the files on the site on every save, and I like it that way, since I then immediately check it out on various browsers). Is there a particular port I should be opening? Should I just not worry about my firewall being down for hours while I set up the site? Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks, Goesta
