Thanks Gideon, this is the sort of overview I was looking for. I'll try 
these things and post a follow up.

Thanks,
mike

On 07/28/2010 11:51 AM, Gideon Romm wrote:
> Mike,
>
> The pulseaudio daemon always runs where the soundcard is - in the case
> of LTSP, that means on the thin client. *No pulseaudio daemon
> need/should run on the server*
>
> The apps on your application servers are all pulseaudio clients. In
> order for them to know the IP address of the pulseaudio daemon, an
> environment variable PULSE_SERVER is set upon login. An example would
> be:
>
> PULSE_SERVER=tcp:192.168.2.29:4713
>
> , where 192.168.2.29 is the thin client IP in this case. This variable
> is usually set by LDM upon login. If you are not using LDM, you must
> set this variable using your own means (a server-side Xsession.d
> script, perhaps?)
>
> Also, if the thin client is not on the same subnet as the application
> server, there must be a route from the application server TO the thin
> client. That is, the pulseaudio clients cannot be blocked by a NAT
> firewall or the like.
>
> In Gnome, you should also ensure that either gstreamer is set to use
> pulseaudio as its output, or (preferred) that alsa is set to redirect
> its output to pulse (which is done by presenting alsa with a
> pulseaudio virtual soundcard device in asound.conf)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> -Gadi
>
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