FMS developed edition running on XP (need apache)

Question

Hi,
Was informed by a mod over at the flash comm forums
here,
that I could run the developer edition of FMS on my XP box but i've
been having loads of trouble talking to it from my mac..
Do i require a web server loading to serve the media server?
something like apache?
I've just tried accessing an flv in the following directory
C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Media Server
2\applications\videoApp\streams\_definst_\greenScreen.flv, via an
FLVPlayback component running from my mac with the contentPath of
rtmp://172.16.100.138/videoApp/greenScreen.flv and it fires a
'failed to load' error when attempting to talk to the box to match
source dimensions etc..
I have set the server address to the IP of the machine:
172.16.100.138 and my mac's is 172.16.100.11 (same subnet/gateway)
If anyone has any advice on how I can get talking to it i'd
be really grateful.

Answer 1

Have just tried an AS ver and still nothing..
I can't understand why this isn't working??
I've created a video instance called 'vid'
Dropped it on the stage and applied the following code:
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect("rtmp://172.16.100.138/videoApp");
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
vid.attachVideo(ns);
ns.play("greenScreen");
-- I've tried running it from my mac with the above IP (my XP
box's that's running the FMS), running it as 'localhost' on the XP
box, varying rtmp/rtmpt and attempting to assign specifc ports via
:1935, :80 etc. but I still get nothing..
Is there a trace command I can use to track the progress of
the connection attempts? or something similar?
and there's nothing in particular that I need to do with the
FMS other than assemble the files in the correct structure and fire
it up?
This should be the simplest thing in the world to do but i'm
still getting nowhere.?.
If ANYone has any ideas or advice I would be really
grateful!!
Thanks,
Dave