you are pointing directly to an FTP server, an IP address might be used instead. Host directory: If you're working in a folder on the remote computer, enter that here. Login: Enter the login name for your remote computer here. Password: Enter the password for your remote computer here. Use passive FTP: By default, Dreamweaver uses Active FTP. Simply put, Active FTP allows the remote server to configure FTP access to it. If you have your own firewall software, you may want to check this option. Doing this effectively enables your firewall software to set up and configure the FTP connection to the remote computer dynamically. For more information on FTP, including passive FTP, review Appendix C, "General Resources." Use firewall: Choose this option if you connect to the remote server from behind a firewall. Firewall Settings: If you've checked the Use Firewall check box, your next step is to configure firewall settings. Clicking this button launches the Site category in the Preferences dialog. We'll discuss these option in more detail in Chapter 5, "Defining Preferences." Use Secure FTP (SFTP) : As I mentioned earlier, files are transferred from the local and remote computer un-securely. If your remote computer has SFTP software installed, you can check this option to use Secure FTP instead of the normal, un-secure FTP. Server Compatibility: Select this option to further maximize the compatibility between Dreamweaver and your remote computer. Selecting this option launches the Server Compatibility dialog which includes options for FTP performance optimization as well as the option for using a different method of rolling back files when Check In and Check Out is enabled. Maintain synchronization information: Select this check box if you want Dreamweaver to automatically synchronize your local and remote files. If you disable this option, synchronization becomes a manual chore, available from the Synchronize Sitewide option in the Site menu. Automatically upload files to server on save: A dangerous option, checking this box gives Dreamweaver free reign to upload files to your remote computer as soon as you save the file locally. I don't typically recommend checking this option. Enable file check in and check out: If you're working in a team collaborative environment, check this option to allow developers to Check In and Check Out files. This option effectively enables the source control functionality built into Dreamweaver. We'll discuss this option with more detail in Chapter 12, "Building Dreamweaver Websites within Teams." Again, we've managed to configure most of the options that we need to this point when we used the Basic tab. For now, I'll leave the configurations alone and move onto the Testing Server category. The Testing Server Category Once you start working with server-side technologies (ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, or PHP to name a few), the Testing Server category, shown in Figure 4.14, becomes more useful. Figure 4.14. The Testing Server category allows you to choose a server technology and an access method. [View full size image]   A detailed list of features and functionality exposed by the Testing Server category is presented here: Server model: Choose an option from this menu to set the server technology for the site. Options include ASP JavaScript, ASP VBScript, ASP.NET C#, ASP.NET VB, ColdFusion, JSP, and PHP MySQL. We'll begin to discuss the various server technology options in Part V, "Dynamic Web Page Creation."