Sorry if this is a dumb question. I looked at the System Requirements for FMS:
[url]http://www.adobe.com/products/flashcom/productinfo/systemreqs/[/url]

According to that FMS requires Windows Server for the "Production Computer".

If I'm just testing FMS for development do I need Windows Server installed to
run FMS?

The tutorials and samples seem to imply that I can run FMS on my own computer.
But if I'm not running Windows Server, which I'm not, will it work?

I ask because I've installed FMS on two computers, both running Windows 2000
Professional. I followed the directions for the samples, which were to drop the
sample/tutorial folder in the applications folder and simply run the SWF file.

Btw, for anyone running the samples/tutorials with Flash Player 8, you'll need
to run them from the Flash authoring environment or re-publish them in Flash 8
with "Network access only". This should be done by Adobe to all of the samples
otherwise every sample run locally in the browser will display a security
alert. One change guys ... you even produced a tool for us to do that to
multiple files for us ... And a number of sample/tutorial FLAs include
NetDebug.as, which doesn't exist anywhere that I know of (in the FMS install).

Anyhow, the files all fail. I even went into the server admin console and
tried adding an instance of the application and nothing is any different. All
samples/tutorials connect and then immediately disconnect - stat displayed in
the server console.

So, if Windows Server is required for FMS to run that would explain why
nothing I've tried works. And if that's the case, why does it let me install
the software?