Windows 2003 Terminal Server and Sound

Windows 2003 Terminal Server and Sound

[--[ UxBoD ]--]

Hi,

I am attempting to get sound working on a W2K server and failing horribly :( The sound device was picked up correctly as a ES1370 and shows as being functional; yet when I rdesktop -r sound:remote <server name> and run Media Player it reports that it is unable to open the device.

I have read that it could be due to QEMU_AUDIO_DRV not being set.  Any help and advice would be gratefully appreciated.

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Thanks, UxBoD

Re: Windows 2003 Terminal Server and Sound

[Jernej Simončič]

On Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 12:42:27, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:

> I am attempting to get sound working on a W2K server and failing
> horribly :( The sound device was picked up correctly as a ES1370 and
> shows as being functional; yet when I rdesktop -r sound:remote
> <server name> and run Media Player it reports that it is unable to open the device.

If you're using a terminal services connection to the machine, it
doesn't need a sound card - sound is provided by the remote service
itself. Note however that Windows 2000 doesn't support sound through
terminal connection - you need XP or newer.

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< Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ >

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Re: Windows 2003 Terminal Server and Sound

[--[ UxBoD ]--]

----- Original Message -----
> On Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 12:42:27, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
> 
> > I am attempting to get sound working on a W2K server and failing
> > horribly :( The sound device was picked up correctly as a ES1370 and
> > shows as being functional; yet when I rdesktop -r sound:remote
> > <server name> and run Media Player it reports that it is unable to
> > open the device.
> 
> If you're using a terminal services connection to the machine, it
> doesn't need a sound card - sound is provided by the remote service
> itself. Note however that Windows 2000 doesn't support sound through
> terminal connection - you need XP or newer.
> 

Well the answer appears to be devishly simple in that RedHat/CentOS have disabled sound support all together :(
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Thanks, Phil