Flash Communcation Server MX is currently a windows application only, unix version will be released sometime in the future.

Most people will be installing the trial on their local machine and playing with it from there. If you want to allow other people to be able to help you experiment and test your flashcoom applications, you need to know how to set up a webserver on your computer so that other people can access your local computer over the web.

If you visit http://www.firepages.com.au/dev4.htm you will find a complete webserver package downloadable for free, including php, mysql, perl and an apache webserver that is all pre-configured to run on your local windows box.

You can run this webserver package on any windows machine.

Unpack the zip file and then set your webserver running by double clicking the start_phdev.bat this will run a few msdos commands that start the apache webserver and the mysql database running.

Now you have yourself a local webserver and anybody on the web can visit your local machine, once they know your ip address.

So to find your ip address, you need to start msdos and type "ipconfig" or "winipconfig" depending on which version of windows you are running. The first set off numbers that appear "Ip-Address: .." is your ip address.

If you type this number into your web browser:

http://Your-Ip-Address/

You will see the contents of your webservers root folder.

Any files you place in this directory and any subdirectories are web accessible.

Therefore if you place your flash movies in this folder, people can view them and play with your experiments with you over the internet.

Next problem, is that your ip address may be dynamic, this is usually the case if you are using a dial-up connection, therefore you will need to register a free static ip-address at http://www.dyndns.org

This website basically gives you a little application to download that automatically notifies the website when your ip address changes, the domain name they give you, usually in the form:

http://yourname.kicks-ass.net

or

http://yourname.dyndns.org

will then redirect people to your ip-address when entered into a web browser.

If you have any questions, or are having problems setting up your local webserver, just email me and ill be more than happy to help.

Hope this helps.