I had selected network transparency on the "server" side in the arts setting,
but you have given me an Idea I need to try later. I am going to login from
the client and see if arts is running locally, if not I will try and start it
from the command line on the client before connecting to the server.
Thanks,
Jerry
On Sunday 15 July 2001 08:44 am, Nathan Callahan wrote:
> X itself does not support remote sound AFAIK. However both arts and
> esound do support this. They will have to be running on the machine
> with the X server (the client) and I don't know how to tell the client
> program (the one running on the server) that it should send its sound
> output to the remote daemon, but some reading of documentation should
> get you there. Or perhaps someone on this list can offer some more
> informative advice.
>
> Hope that some of this helps. But somehow I doubt it.
>
> On Sunday, July 15, 2001, at 09:31 PM, Jerry Sternesky wrote:
> > I have been playing around with running X on a client from a server.
> > From a
> > console I type X -once -query [hostname], I get the login menu from the
> > machine acting as a server. Login and no problems with running apps.
> > However, if I play a sound it comes from the speakers of the machine
> > acting
> > as a server, how do I get it to play on the client? Are there any good
> > howto's out there that address something like this? I am trying to
> > help a
> > friend out who wants to run a fat server and a 2 thin clients. The
> > goal is to have a local console version of Linux on each of the clients
> > but
> > do the gui from a server. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jerry
