Sound on Remote Desktop

[ggrabbit]

I have set up a system using Remote Desktop.
When I connect a microphone to the host, I can hear or record the sound on the host, but using remote desktop, I can't hear the sound on the remote desktop, and that's what I want: I want to play the sound recorded by a microphone attached to the host on the remote system (live).
When I play sounds like system-beeps, or wav-files on the host, I CAN hear them on the remote system, but NOT the sound of the mike...

 

[elmurado]

Does the microphone use a program to 'play' the sounds going into the microphone? When you RDP, you can hit options and then programs and enter the path, to see if that may help.

 

[ggrabbit]

No, the microphone is used as input to the sound card. On the control panel you can swith it on/off and eventually mute. When mute is off, I can hear the sound recorded by the microphone through the speakers/headphone.
Using Remote Desktop, you can choose to play sounds on the host or on the remote system. When I choose "remote", I can hear all sounds there but the microphone...

@elmurado: Any suggestions about the program to play the sound of the microphone?

 

[elmurado]

I think it may be driver thing--what if the other sounds use the RDP audio driver(I believe one gets loaded that plays the sounds) whilst the mike uses the physical sound card?

 

[elmurado]

Found this on anotrher site: Are you using XP -XP rdp? Not sure if this applies then.
"Basically you want three things configured.

One: make sure you are redirecting audio to your local machine in the Client. Under options etc.....

Two: In terminal services configuration, under properties for RDP-tcp, go to Client settings and make sure the Audio Redirection option is checked.

Three, and this was the killer for me to find: Go in to your group policies and drill down to the terminal services, I can find the link. There is an audio redirection setting which is at default. Once I changed that to allowed, everything worked.

Hope that helps.

Honer