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I have a friend who incessantly uses Windows, so rather than try and shove Linux at him, I just go with the flow. Well, it's more that I've given up.
Anyway, since he uses Windows, I typically use Remote Desktop to connect to his system, and have a couple of times tried to forward sound over the connection but it simply hasn't worked. I recently wanted to run something and needed (well, really wanted) to forward sound over the link, but none of
rdesktop ... -r sound:local
rdesktop ... -r sound:local:alsa
rdesktop ... -r sound:local:oss # even with everything else that might possibly use sound closed...
rdesktop ... -r sound:local:libao
rdesktop ... -r sound:remote # for the lulz, and no, it didn't work
Then I got inspired by google: WINE + mstsc.exe. Thanks to my "NEVAR DELETE ANYTHYNG!!! ALL FILEZ ARE IMPORTANT!!!" rule I have the remains of an old XP install buried in a heap inside a mound on my server, so fished mstsc.exe out of that, and... no go. "wine mstsc.exe" works but I can't click on the neccessary tab to enable sound - this segfaults WINE. "Simple, just create an .rdp file on the Windows machine and copy it (over the clipboard) to here, then run it," I thought, but no go. Without going into the details, as I go along I'm copying across various DLLs from the old XP installation that mstsc is complaining about not having or WINE is mentioning when it segfaults, until I get to one last DLL, winscard.dll, which WINE says is missing "SCardAddReaderToGroupA", and strings + grep say otherwise about.
In a last ditch attempt to JUST MAKE THE THING WORK, I jump onto my server with ssh -XY (X forwarding, heheheh), cd to .wine/drive_c/, rename the "windows" folder to "windows_", and symlink my real backed up XP install to "windows". Yeah, amazingly, the server didn't catch fire BUT WINE STILL COMPLAINED ABOUT WINSCARD.DLL. Bug?
At any rate, sound forwarding refuses to work. Help?
-dav7
Windows was made for looking at success from a distance through a wall of oversimplicity. Linux removes the wall, so you can just walk up to success and make it your own.
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Windows was made for looking at success from a distance through a wall of oversimplicity. Linux removes the wall, so you can just walk up to success and make it your own.
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Reinventing the wheel is fun. You get to redefine pi.
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