Connection key

I'm a longtime Dreamweaver user and just installed Contribute
CS4.
As a website designer / developer some of my clients want to
do minor edits to the websites I build them. I'm running a test to
see what they must do, so I setup a beta site on my server.
I created a "connection key" and sent it to a test client.
She got it, but when she double-clicks it, Vista says "what program
opens this file?"
I have Contribute on my machine. Does the client need it
too?? Sounds like a dumb question, but I don't see anything in
documention that covers this.
Thanks,
John

Contribute is a client side program. It needs to be installed
on your computer and your clients computer. Communication with the
webserver is done with FTP. When your client installs Contribute,
the program will run when she double clicks the key.

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get the message "Your FTP username or password is incorrect." In
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Thanks for sharing.
John
"Art Shotwell" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
news:C28C938F.14B2D%[email protected]..
> It took several days of back-and-forth with Adobe
support, but I finally
> got
> an answer and so I thought I'd post it here for
everyone. Contribute 4.11
> has a problem storing FTP passwords that include special
characters such
> as
> & or *, which I always use in my FTP passwords.
Changing passwords fixes
> Adobe's problem. Support told me this was a known
problem and their
> engineers are working on it.
>
>
> On 5/31/07 10:33 PM, in article
f3ob3i$gv7$[email protected], "Art
> Shotwell" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have Contribute CS3/Dreamweaver CS3. When I
create a connection
>> key,
>> then
>> send it to a user (or try to use it myself) I get
the message "Your FTP
>> username or password is incorrect." In testing: I
create a key in DW/CS3,
>> place
>> it on my Mac deskcop, then open Contribute CS3,
double-click the key, I
>> get
>> the
>> message. If I create a new connection in Contribute
CS3 as admin, I can
>> get in
>> to edit site. I create a connection key, place it on
my Mac desktop,
>> remove
>> the
>> connection in Contribute CS3, then double-click the
new key, I get the
>> same
>> message. Same problem for clients. All sites, all
clients. I can walk a
>> client
>> through manually adding the connection and it works
just fine. Anyone
>> with any
>> ideas why the keys don't work???
>>
>
>

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Contribute could not verify your connection key.
Please contact your administrator for assistance.
(Server Error: Contribute cannot contact the website
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Your login or password is incorrect. Please check your
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