Flash Media Server 2 - Trace

I have ...
* Flash MX Professional 2004 7.2
* Flash Media Server 2
* Flash Remoting Components
The problem I am having is I cannot get trace messages on
server side scripts to display anywhere. I have looked at View
Applications > {APP} > Live Log, but nothing is there. I have
#include "NetDebug.as" in my code, but while giving no errors, it
appears not to do anything. I really have no idea what is going on,
as I have previously managed to get trace messages displayed
successfully.
Please help and my thanks!

About the security warning... you get that with all .swf's
run locally. To get rid of it, follow the link to add the location
in the security manager. The link will take you to a page on the
adobe site. Just add the path to the .swf, and you won't get that
warning anymore.
About connecting from a local .swf... it will work just fine.
It's the flash client that makes the connection, so it doesn't
matter where it's served or run from.
In your main.asc, the code looks good but you don't need to
load the component libraries unless you're using components
(Communication components, not UI components). Loading them doesn't
harm the operation of the application, it just uses memory where
you not might need to.
In your client side AS, try changing the rtmp string to match
the following:
myNetConnection.connect("rtmp://129.186.168.116/LawnChairLarry");
Note the addition of a second slash after the rtmp, and the
absence of the _definst_ instance name. If you want to use the
default instance, you don't need to identify it.
Next, you'll want to make sure the path to your video file
looks like this:
FMS Install
Dir/applications/LawnChairLarry/streams/_definst_/LawnChairLarry.flv

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