Bug 501548
| Summary: | no sound redirection with Windows Server 2008 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | James Ralston <ralston> |
| Component: | rdesktop | Assignee: | Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 13 | CC: | kem, sandmann, snagar |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2010-06-28 16:51:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping I'm surprised how this worked with Windows XP. This seems to be an issue with Fedora 11 moving to pulseaudio while rdesktop is still expecting the old /dev/dsp for sound. See here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2806356&group_id=24366&atid=381347 This message is a reminder that Fedora 11 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '11'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 11's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 11 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. This is still an issue with Fedora 13 (rdesktop-1.6.0-7). @Siddharth: this is a different bug. The problem with rdesktop wanting /dev/dsp can be worked-around by using padsp. E.g.: $ padsp rdesktop -r sound win2008-server.example.org But anyway, I tracked down the problem: per upstream, audio redirection doesn't work on Windows Server 2008 unless a disk redirection is also used: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=a7eb578e0908201652l6aa5645cu4373ea7fea0d794f%40mail.gmail.com Meaning, this won't work: $ padsp rdesktop -r sound win2008-server.example.org You have to do (e.g.): $ padsp rdesktop -r sound -r disk:home=/home win2008-server.example.org (It doesn't matter what disk path you redirect; you just have to redirect *something*.) This seemed totally non-intuitive to me, but from my testing, upstream is correct: sound redirection works perfectly if and only if I redirect a disk path. Closing as NOTABUG, because (per upstream) this is a limitation/restriction of Windows Server 2008. |
When using rdesktop 1.6 to connect to Windows XP hosts, if I use the "-r sound" option, sound redirection works just fine. However, if I connect to a host running Windows Server 2008 instead, sound redirection does not work. The strange thing, though, is that the Windows Server 2008 host thinks that sound redirection *is* working. Specifically, it claims that the audio driver is: Microsoft RDP Audio Transport ...and *appears* to play sounds successfully. (That is, if you load up a sound file and start playing it, Windows Server 2008 plays the file with no errors.) The Microsoft RDP Audio Transport audio control is not muted, and the volume is turned the whole way up. But nonetheless, rdesktop produces no sounds. From searching the web, I see other people reporting that sound redirection isn't working with rdesktop 1.6 and Windows Server 2008 / Vista, but I couldn't find any mention of it in the rdesktop mailing list archives. Versions: 0:rdesktop-1.6.0-4.fc11.x86_64