Terminal Server - Hearing parts of other user's sound

[wwwolf]

I've ran across an odd issue with a Windows Server 2008 box set up as a terminal server. We have three users accessing the system over a LAN, one on a dedicated thin client, the other two on Windows XP's Remote Desktop Connection.

When one of the users is playing internet radio on her thin client the other two can hear parts of it. It seems like when the sound stutters for the main user, one of the other users can then hear it on their speakers.

No other information or applications seem to be leaking over to the other users, any one ever heard of this?

 

[itsp1965]

In terminal services configuration try disabling audio mapping at the server level

 

[wwwolf]

Hi itsp1965,
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try - but won't that disable sound for all users?
I do want the users to be able to have sound (some need it every so often), I just don't want them to be able to hear each other.

 

[itsp1965]

Unfortunately as a thin client I'll assume she has no local storage and OS therefore it seems she is re-mapping her sound device during her TS session which is prob causing the others grief. Also doesn't seem very prudent for a thin client to be using server bandwidth to listen to internet radio (but that's another story altogether)

 

[w33mhz]

There should be a sound setting on the thin client try turning off the sound in the RDP connection settings for the connection the user is using. Depending on the thin client, you choose how to handle the sound whether to bring sound to the device or not.
I agree with itsp1965 that it is really a waste of bandwidth and actually processing on the server for users to be messing around with internet radio.
Now I don't know if it is possible with the thin client the user is using but maybe you can go to the internet radio site and play from the local thin client, if this is really something needed. Some thin clients have an Internet Browser on them, just some things won't always work, like flash for example, but if you have a smart enough one you can probably get this done.