Client movements not registering on Server

okay, as much as I try to keep my posts brief, this one is a bit long.

I'm making a game. In it, the players have to find each other in a large area, and then shoot each other. It's online. There are a few little things, but for the most part, all I need to do over the network is connect, then, I need to track the position of each player on each machine.

First I tried just attaching a networkveiw component to each player and have it observe the transforms. It appeared to be working, but I'm not sure.

then I changed the way the game worked. to allow for matches with more than 2 players I instantiate player prefabs, one for each player (you really don't want me to go into how i do this). That's when it seemed to not be working; although, it might not have ever been working (I might have always been the client when i tested).

the players only register movement on the client's game. The server (I never tested this with more than 2 people) saw himself, but not the client. the client could see everyone. I don't get it. I thought networkveiw would do that for me.

I decided to lookup a way to track network transforms, I found this script

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class trackposition : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public void OnSerializeNetworkView( BitStream stream, 
                                        NetworkMessageInfo info )
     {
         // we are currently writing information to the network
         if( stream.isWriting )
         {
             // send the object's position
             Vector3 position = transform.position;
             stream.Serialize( ref position );
         }
         // we are currently reading information from the network
         else
         {
             // read the first vector3 and store it in 'position'
             Vector3 position = Vector3.zero;
             stream.Serialize( ref position );
             
             // set the object's position to the value we were sent
             transform.position = position;
         }
     }
 }

This yielded the same result.

I don't know I'm not sure I'm going to be able to fix this. Could it have to do with how I insantiate the objects? I would really appreciate all help.

thanks.