Re: Audio redirection Windows 2008 server

Jay Sorg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.rdesktop.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I'm using rdesktop to connect to a Windows 2008 server. All works well
> except the audio redirection. I have been able to setup audio redirection
> connecting to a Windows 2003 server and I'm using that same configuration to
> connect to the Windows 2008 server. I'm running rdesktop on a debian lenny
> box with alsa and alsa-oss installed. I start rdesktop using this command
>
> aoss rdesktop -f -r sound:local 10.0.0.6
>
> This works connecting to a 2003 server but not on a 2008 server. I do have
> the audio redirection enable on the 2008 server and the audio works when
> using the windows rdp client.

This is because of a change in the way the windows server works.
The sound redirection does not work if there is no drive redirection
with win2008.
Add a drive redirection and try again.

Jay

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