[SalesForce] Unable to link to org in Force.com IDE

Using Eclipse Kepler, I've followed these instructions and tried all 3 available IDE versions (31, 30, 29) but cannot successfully connect to my org's production environment or a developer environment spun off production. I have been able to connect to a new developer sandbox I've just generated to see if that works, so not sure what the issue is.

Steps I've followed are:

  1. Install JDK 7 Install Eclipse Kepler 'IDE for Java Developers'
  2. In Eclipse installed IDE v31
  3. Open Perspective –> Other –> Force.com
  4. File –> New –> Force.com project
  5. Entered Username, password, security token Selected Production/Developer Edition environment
  6. Clicked next
  7. At this point I get "Unable to connect to hostname 'www.salesforce.com': Invalid username, password, security token; or user locked out."

I'm positive I've got the correct username, pw and token, and I've also tried the above steps with a developer org of the production org (for environment tried both sandbox and Other – test.salesforce.com without success). I've tried all of this with v31, v30 and v29. I've also tried Environment Other – ap1.salesforce.com (the server our SF instance sits on) with the same result.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Best Answer

Some basic validation it brings to my mind – check if you didn't go through this already!

  • See if your account is really locked out

  • Is your user account profile has API enabled (hope you might be using System Administrator profile – in case of that this is also enabled by default)

  • Try including your IP range in Security Control -> Network Access (it will help if IP range was enforced)

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