Asp.net User Roles Management: Where to Begin

I’m new to User Roles Management. I was reading my Wrox Programming book on asp.net 3.5 user role management…but it was hard to follow along, as I do not have a local server set up to test on (I do…but…thats a separate question), but rather currently test on a remote server (where the website is hosted, theres not enough hits where I can get away with testing on a live server).