BTW, I am using xdmcp now (my 9.1 home box has lost it's blue colour drive on it's monitor) from my laptop to my desktop, and if I don't log in locally on the desktop, no sound works, what I really want though is sound to play on my laptop ...
Remote sound is really awful to configure. You can use the ltsp trick (put a file in /etc/profile.d that checks if you are logging in remotely and in that case sets LD_PRELOAD="/lib/libaudiooss.so.1.0" and AUDIOSERVER="$DISPLAY"), and then modify soundwrapper to look at those variables. Arts won't work with libaudiooss though, so (almost) no sound in kde applications. Or you can select a nas plugin for each application that has it available, but then you have to switch back to oss/alsa when you login locally. Or you can enable network transparency in arts (and disable it next time you log in locally). Until sound is managed in a centralized fashion, like X display, you'll have to live with ugly workarounds and configuration hell.
Bye
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