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On 2009-05-19T17:25:30+00:00 James wrote:

When using rdesktop 1.6 to connect to Windows XP hosts, if I use the "-r
sound" option, sound redirection works just fine.

However, if I connect to a host running Windows Server 2008 instead,
sound redirection does not work.

The strange thing, though, is that the Windows Server 2008 host thinks
that sound redirection *is* working.  Specifically, it claims that the
audio driver is:

    Microsoft RDP Audio Transport

...and *appears* to play sounds successfully. (That is, if you load up a
sound file and start playing it, Windows Server 2008 plays the file with
no errors.) The Microsoft RDP Audio Transport audio control is not
muted, and the volume is turned the whole way up.

But nonetheless, rdesktop produces no sounds.

>From searching the web, I see other people reporting that sound
redirection isn't working with rdesktop 1.6 and Windows Server 2008 /
Vista, but I couldn't find any mention of it in the rdesktop mailing
list archives.

Versions:

0:rdesktop-1.6.0-4.fc11.x86_64

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On 2009-06-09T16:07:10+00:00 Bug wrote:


This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 
development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

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On 2010-03-02T17:14:09+00:00 Siddharth wrote:

I'm surprised how this worked with Windows XP. This seems to be an issue
with Fedora 11 moving to pulseaudio while rdesktop is still expecting
the old /dev/dsp for sound.

See here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2806356&group_id=24366&atid=381347

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On 2010-04-27T14:24:25+00:00 Bug wrote:


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On 2010-06-28T12:36:38+00:00 Bug wrote:


Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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On 2010-06-28T16:49:53+00:00 James wrote:

This is still an issue with Fedora 13 (rdesktop-1.6.0-7).

@Siddharth: this is a different bug. The problem with rdesktop wanting
/dev/dsp can be worked-around by using padsp. E.g.:

$ padsp rdesktop -r sound win2008-server.example.org

But anyway, I tracked down the problem: per upstream, audio redirection
doesn't work on Windows Server 2008 unless a disk redirection is also
used:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=a7eb578e0908201652l6aa5645cu4373ea7fea0d794f%40mail.gmail.com

Meaning, this won't work:

$ padsp rdesktop -r sound win2008-server.example.org

You have to do (e.g.):

$ padsp rdesktop -r sound -r disk:home=/home win2008-server.example.org

(It doesn't matter what disk path you redirect; you just have to
redirect *something*.)

This seemed totally non-intuitive to me, but from my testing, upstream
is correct: sound redirection works perfectly if and only if I redirect
a disk path.

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On 2010-06-28T16:51:07+00:00 James wrote:

Closing as NOTABUG, because (per upstream) this is a
limitation/restriction of Windows Server 2008.

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** Changed in: rdesktop (Fedora)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Changed in: rdesktop (Fedora)
   Importance: Unknown => Low

** Bug watch added: SourceForge.net Tracker #2806356
   http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=2806356

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