That's an interesting topic, and not a new one (I mean I remember hitting the same problem with IP Telephony application on Citrix back at the beginning of this century.

When I first read your post I thought VLC: Video LAN Client sounds about just right for what you need.

So you can stream audio out of your Server session using VLC, as long as you have all the required codecs.

But then you need to be able to receive or read the stream from your thin-client...

Can you access the console using Alt+F1 or Ctrl+Alt+F1?

If you can then you could check some of the VLC documentation that explains how to setup streaming for both the client and server (http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch04.html#id311798).

I hope this helps!

langerak wrote:

I already got your help with the PXE Boot situation and here i am again with a question!

Now i have the LTSP server running fine and all works quite fast i must say. The only thing i miss is the sound. When checking the soundsystem in Gnome, it only show the soundcard of the server, on which ALSA runs, even in the image i have included ALSA, but it outputs the same config.
What i would like is to play the sound over the network, e.g. have some music on the server, and got that mounted via NFS and i want to play it on the thin client and hear the audio on the thin client. Now what happens when i open up a mp3 file is that the music starts playing on the server, meaning, the sound comes out of the speakers connected to the server.

Already searched a bit and came along PulseAudio altho i couldn't get that to work properly and there was a program in Ubuntu called "nas" and so far i haven't got that working either...

So, anybody some ideas or some handy links?

Thanks in advance!

If I understand what you are trying to do, I do it at home - the only difference is I use SMB (SaMBa) instead of NFS. The Linux fileserver that hosts my MP3s doesn't even have a sound card. But all my SMB clients that attach to it to listen to music do have sound cards. It is just a matter of getting sound working on my clients, and then accessing the network share, and playing the files with some player (e.g., i use WinAmp on my Windows boxes and XMMS on my Linux boxes). The server does not actually play/stream the music.

Is there some reason why this approach would not work for you?

SMB (SaMBa)

SMB actually stands for Server Message Block :p.

ludovic.ferre wrote:

[quote]SMB (SaMBa)

SMB actually stands for Server Message Block :p.[/quote]

yeah, I know, but when we're standing around the coffee machine, we say "the Samba server locked up again", not the "the Server Message Block server locked up again" :P