Can't hear sounds via Remote desktop

[Guest]

wUnable to hear sounds generated by remote system; I am sure I used to, can't
now and can't figure what has changed. Connected to a dedicated workstation
at another site. Can enter cpanel on that machine, but whenever I raise the
volume control for the Microsoft RDP Audio driver, it always goes back to low
on clicking 'apply.' Playing sounds from cpanel generates "Windows cannot
play the %SystemRoot%\medic\Windows XP Error.wav file" (for example). Would
like to hear audio prompts from remote system. Help!

 

[Ian]

I think this is a flaky capability of Remote Desktop Connection.

With the exact same connection settings I have found that, sometimes, the
sounds are brought to the client PC; on other occasions (different
sessions), the sounds remain at the host PC. On one occasion, I found that
the sounds were originally left at the host PC and then migrated to the
client PC in the same session. These tests were all conducted on 2 PCs in
proximity to one another on the same subnet (no firewalls or other potential
hindrances involved).

I think the first 3 "commercial" releases of any Microsoft product should
really be considered as "technology previews" and we should not have such
high expectations of them.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

wUnable to hear sounds generated by remote system; I am sure I used to,
can't
now and can't figure what has changed. Connected to a dedicated
workstation
at another site. Can enter cpanel on that machine, but whenever I raise
the
volume control for the Microsoft RDP Audio driver, it always goes back to
low
on clicking 'apply.' Playing sounds from cpanel generates "Windows cannot
play the %SystemRoot%\medic\Windows XP Error.wav file" (for example).
Would
like to hear audio prompts from remote system. Help!

Some folks report that starting the application on the remote PC before
connecting with Remote Desktop solves this issue..

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