GCSAdmin

No error messages that I can see.
Are there any specific areas for logs/logging to check to verify?

Also tried the “Localhost” trick mentioned and left credentials blank but it still tries to prompt for them.

Yep, tried adding several variations of the available user names/passwords/FTP “site” on the LocalServer and neither of these variations worked when applying them to the WP-Config file.

Additionally, I tried to add the following to the WP-Config file:
define(‘FS_Method’, ‘direct’); //updates via file system

This also failed.
Maybe im missing something here?