Tutorials:
http://www.flashcomguru.com/tutorials/
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashmediaserver/
Books (Do not know how you can go beyond a test drive without this one):
http://flash-communications.net/

Is it running:
I have Windows XP Pro and look in Services to see if it is running.
Start->All Programs->Administrative Tools-> Services. You will see two
entries, one for the Administrative app and one for the actual server.

You want to launch the Management Console to see what is happening on the
FMS. That menu choice is installed in your Windows Start menu.

I believe FMS is running under your web server or as a part of it -- but do
not quote me on that as I am more an apps person.

Your apps do not need to run on the same server as FMS . Your Flash movie
launch from and can communicate with any type of Server and FMS in the same
app/movie.

Your Flash movie can send data to and from FMS in a few ways (client/server)
for example Remote Shared objects that can communicate to all clients
connected to app and can be persistent if you want.

FMS now does communicate with with XML and LoadVars in the FMS version of AS
(Server/Server). Have to put them to task yet.

Then there is Flash remoting as another FMS to server app communication.

I use IIS5 for the FMS and I use Apache/PHP for my FMS apps but again they
are not necessarily related in the app as you could have a simple video
player that has all the data hard wired into the Flash movie that is
communicating with its server for other FMS unrelated tasks.




--
Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
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I am really new to this, and can't sem to find basic examples of how to use
flash media server.... If any one knows of any good websites/tutorials (not
books) with info on this subject please let me know.

I don't even know if I have installed the developers edition correctly on
my
harddrive. When I press 'start media server' nothing happens. With apache I
can
see that the server is running. (there is an icon that lets you
know)...infact
what even is media server 2.... Does it support php? mysql? or does it run
in
conjunction with apache. Any advise would be great.thanks.

I am really new to this, and can't sem to find basic examples of how to use
flash media server.... If any one knows of any good websites/tutorials (not
books) with info on this subject please let me know.

I don't even know if I have installed the developers edition correctly on my
harddrive. When I press 'start media server' nothing happens. With apache I can
see that the server is running. (there is an icon that lets you know)...infact
what even is media server 2.... Does it support php? mysql? or does it run in
conjunction with apache. Any advise would be great.thanks.