On Sunday 11 January 2009 1:25 am, Brian McKerr wrote: > Try NX from nomachine.com. The Free version FreeNX is in the centos extras > repo. Had to do a second install on the remote computer (I probably did something wrong the first time) but everything that I needed to work, does work. I even have sound to my local computer from the remote computer via a windows application running with wine on the remote computer. Thanks for your recommendation. David > ----- "partha chowdhury" <kira.laucas at gmail.com> wrote: > > dcw wrote: > > > I need to redirect the sound from a remote Centos 5.2 computer to my > > > > local > > > > > Centos 5.2 computer. Both are i386 OS. > > > > > > Searching the web and Centos web site has indicated that it is > > > > possible but I > > > > > have not found any information about how to do it. > > > > > > I am currently using ssh and/or vnc to display the remote computer > > > > locally. At > > > > > this point, the sound is being played on the remote computer only. > > > > > > Thanks for any help, > > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > > > CentOS mailing list > > > CentOS at centos.org > > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > for this purpose you have to setup your local machine as a sound > > server. > > i have set up succesfully using this tutorial, > > > http://www.hackenberger.at/blog/gentoo-guides/how-to-play-sound-on-a-remo > >te-server/ > > > > my scenario : two computers on the same private network > > > > on the first computer , i copy the line export ARTS_SERVER=ip of > > second > > machine:<port> to the currently logged in user's .bashrc file. Then > > play > > any mp3 with mplayer with audio output chosen as arts. > > > > on the second machine start artsd with artsd -n -u -p 5001 option ( > > however please consider the security) and set up iptables or firewall > > to > > make the second computer to accept request from first computer on port > > 5001. > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > believed to be clean. -- RD Woodyard, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------