re: No sound on windows xp over remote desktop Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 7:45 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by RC (4 messages posted) Actually, problem was not solved, but now it is. I thought the problem was that the sound cards would not run when the box was headless (no monitor, keyboard or mouse). But the problem was that it would not use the sound card(s) when there had not been a local (at the physical computer) login since the last reboot. The workaround: Using Tweak-UI, I caused the machine to auto-login. Then, with the same account, I connect remotely through remote desktop. That way, everytime there is a reboot, the first login is a local one (auto-login) and then the box can be accessed remotely. It's important to use the same user account for auto-login and remote, because remote access on xp allows you to kick yourself off a local machine remotely without confirmation. If two different users were used, a confirmation dialog box would appear for the local (auto-logged in) user and getting no response (as the machine is headless) it would just keep telling you connection denied. This was an absurd problem that took me a while to fix. I hope this helps someone out there reading this. R On Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 1:33 pm, RC wrote: >Problem solved. > >I believe this is an obscure bug in Windows XP. The problem, I think is that in >some cases (perhaps just with this sound card or configuration), although a piece >of hardware is "recognized" by the os, it's not functional until you log in at the >terminal physically, which is what I did. > >I really pushed every configuration, reinstall of components, driver manipulation, >etc. and nothing worked. When I finally pulled out the monitor, keyboard and mouse >from the basement and reconnected them to the headless unit, then attempted to access >the components directly (and not remotely), XP picked them up and now I can control >the server's sound output remotely as well. > >Very satisfying to have this beast running the way I want it. > >-Rich. > Written in response to: re: No sound on windows xp over remote desktop (RC: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 1:33 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] No sound on windows xp over remote desktop (RC: Wed, Jun 30, 2004, 8:44 pm) re: No sound on windows xp over remote desktop (RC: Wed, Jul 14, 2004, 1:33 pm) re: No sound on windows xp over remote desktop (RC: Wed, Jul 14, 2004, 7:45 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum