Kai Wollweber wrote:
hello,
Unfortunately there exist some learning programs which need MS Windows OS.
I know that it is possible to connect to a MS Windows 2003 Terminal Server from an LTSP-Terminal by various rtp clients running on the server.
We want to run some school related programs with sound on the server.
Before spending money for hardware and licences I want to verify if sound will work on the LTSP Terminals. IMHO the MS Server side supports sending sound to a RDP client. The remaining question is, whether the Linux RDP client running on the server will be able to receive sound from the MS Server and pass it to the Terminals.
Are there experiences with running the program "English Coach" from Cornelsen, Germany on a Terminal Server?
<rant>
I'm just in the middle of installing something very much like this in a Hauptschule near Bonn - they have a Win2003 Terminal Server, and Windows clients (and it was not my decision to buy them). After spending hours on finding out how the f* to activate the sound transmission to the clients (everything else, I mean mouse, kbd, video, fileshare worked, only sound did not), I saw that it was set to "no sound over rdp" as security default policy. Thank you M$ for having this reasonable setting.
</rant>
If you didn't run into that problem, the better.
Running the english program over at that school over RDP is a visible difference to having it on the screen of the server console. You probably should run the rdpclient as local app so that there is only one network connection eating the speed, not two (WinTS <-net-> LinuxServer <-net-> Terminal).
Then, please read wether RDP 5.1 is implemented into the client in the meantime. A short google search gave out that it wasn't in mid-2002, and RDP5.1 is absolutely necessary for sound (its precessors didn't have that ability). You could of course have ideas like using the windows terminal client software together with wine, or running the cornelsen stuff with wine at all.... I have no idea if one of those had any chance
of more than beeing terrible slow and/or unstable. Your results would be
interesting, I'm too busy right now to test that :-)
TIA
Kai Wollweber
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