Newbie to FMS 2

hi,

I've been tearing my hair out with the same, or very similar problem....

I built a simple flash media app to stream some live audio, which is being encoded by Flash Media Encoder and published to a Flash Media server on the same machine, but hosted remotely from my client/player. Basically I want to make the stream available to Internet users.

I'm serving the html/swf files locally.

When the FMS is hosted in the same LAN as the html/swf files, it all works. BUT when I take the FMS and host it remotely, the NetConnection fails. Firewall ports all checked and apparently ok.

I did an Ethereal trace which shows the client making a TCP connection to port 1935 (RTMP) and reaching the server, but the server TCP is returning a TCP RST (reset).

I haven't tried specifying the port 1935 in the nc.connect(), but will give it a try. But don't see why it should make a difference given I can see from the trace my packets are going to TCP port 1935.

The FMS2 documentation does point out that Net.connect will fail if the html/swf is served from a different domain than the domain the FMS resides. But having read up more about FM player "sandboxing" it seems the only way to ensure both client and server are in the same security sandbox is to serve the html/swf files from the same machine as the FMS2. But then that severely limits flexibility and is contrary to much of what is described by the documentation in terms of being able to host the FMS and html/swf on physically different machines.

Anyone out there with any clues??

thanks in advance!

JayCharles,
Yeah, I have tried messing w/ the firewalls and port 1935 for some time now. I have had no luck with that at all. The ip im using in code is for Machine A's LAN IP: 192.168.#.# I've also tried using: rtmp:/testApp1 , and still no luck. Here's the code that works on Machine A ( which has FMS2 Dev. and Apache ):

----code below----

import flash.net.NetConnection;
import flash.events.NetStatusEvent;
import flash.events.AsyncErrorEvent;
import flash.events.SecurityErrorEvent;

import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.events.Event;

import flash.net.SharedObject;
import flash.events.SyncEvent;


var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
var so:SharedObject;



//CONNECT=========================================================================
nc.objectEncoding = ObjectEncoding.AMF0;
//circle_so.objectEncoding = ObjectEncoding.AMF0;

nc.addEventListener( NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS , netStatusHandler );
nc.addEventListener( AsyncErrorEvent.ASYNC_ERROR , asyncErrorHandler );
nc.addEventListener( SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR , securityErrorHandler );

nc.connect( "rtmp://192.168.#.#/testApp1" ); //change last two numbers
//my other attempt
//nc.connect( "rtmp:/testApp1" );

function asyncErrorHandler( aee:AsyncErrorEvent ){
StatusText.text = aee.toString();
}//end function

function securityErrorHandler( see:SecurityErrorEvent ){
StatusText.text = see.toString();
}//end function

function netStatusHandler( nse:NetStatusEvent ){
StatusText.text = nse.info.code;
if( nse.info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success" ){
light.gotoAndStop( 2 ); //green
so = SharedObject.getRemote( "position" , nc.uri );
so.addEventListener( SyncEvent.SYNC , syncHandler );
so.connect( nc );
}else{
light.gotoAndStop( 1 ); //red
}//end if
}//end function

function syncHandler( se:SyncEvent ){
for( var i:Number = 0 ; i < se.changeList.length ; i++ ){
updateCircle();
}//end for
}//end function
//CONNECT=========================================================================


//CIRCLE==========================================================================
function updateCircle( ){
circle.x = so.data.dx;
circle.y = so.data.dy;
}//end function

circle.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN , mouseDownHandler );
circle.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP , mouseUpHandler );

function mouseDownHandler( me:MouseEvent ){
circle.startDrag( false );
circle.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE , mouseMoveHandler );
}//end function

function mouseUpHandler( me:MouseEvent ){
circle.stopDrag();
circle.removeEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE , mouseMoveHandler );
}//end function

function mouseMoveHandler( me:MouseEvent ){
updateSO( circle );
}//end function

function updateSO( mc:MovieClip ){
so.setProperty( "dx" , circle.x );
so.setProperty( "dy" , circle.y );
}//end function
//CIRCLE==========================================================================
---end code---

I think that's about it. It's just a simple app where if you move the ball, it updates in the other browser windows as well.