Hello all. I have a large book known as “Flash MX 2004 ActionScript Bible”, by Robert Reinhardt and Joey Lott. Within this book is many things, and one of them caught my attention. The section that caught my eye was Socket Connections and Local Connections. I have tried messing around with what they gave me, and have managed to create something. I have a file where the person can enter a IP address and then it will try and connect to that ip addres. Here is where I have the problems and questions. Do I need to include a port number? Can it be any random port number (that is above 1024 of course)?
The last question has to do successfull connections. I have Flash Commonication Server MX, and when it is running, I can enter my own IP and have a successfull connection (of course). But it does not work when I enter my IP for my second computer which does not have Flash Communication Server MX. So, can’t you connect to another persons computer without them having to run a server side program? For example, LAN games or programs.
