<tt>Thanks for the guidance. It is frustrating, but yes, my installation seems to run inversely from the documentation. I will try to specify the name/ipaddress of the client in the settings for xmms and see what happens, I know how to do that. You have mentioned turning on the "sound hacks" option.....This is the first that I have heard of the "sound hacks". Could you please tell me what I must run or configure to turn on the "sound hacks"? How do I see if the "sound hacks" are enabled? Norm ---------------------------------------------------- Generally in LTSP when logged in as root sound is not sent to clients; </tt><tt>sound is only sent when logged in as a user. You seem to have turned it </tt><tt>the other way around. Try logging in as user run xmms and specify the </tt><tt>name/ip address of the client in the settings and see what happens. </tt> <pre style="margin: 0em;">Krsnendu dasa </pre> <tt>P.S. I have a 4.4.1 sandbox but I have not really tested the sound on it </tt><tt>yet. I also considered it for the sound feature. At the same time I </tt><tt>installed the sandbox I also turned on the "sound hacks" option in my </tt><tt>production 4.2.0 server and now sound works well. xmms, tuxmath, flash </tt><tt>websites, Mplayer, etc. Haven't got WINE sound working yet... </tt> <pre style="margin: 0em;">norm hanna wrote: </pre> <tt>Sorry for going over this again, but I have a sound issue on the </tt><tt>clients (which is the driving factor towards moving to 4.4.1) </tt><tt>In the test thjn client, I am having difficulties with sound using esd </tt><tt>and gnome under version 4.4.1. The test server was built by taking </tt><tt>all the defaults in the 4.4.1 installation. I have also tried with </tt><tt>all defaults and yum -y upgrade with exact same results. </tt><tt>Both the thin client and the server have the same sound integrated </tt><tt>i810_audio. </tt><tt>When I log into the thin client as root, sound works well under xmms, </tt><tt>rhythmbox (with gstreamer-plugins), gstreamer-properties, sounds from </tt><tt>the sound server under gnome, etc.....even the volume controls show </tt><tt>up. esdplay /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav works well. using "tcpdump | </tt><tt>grep 16001" on the server console when running the command esdplay </tt><tt>/usr/share/sounds/phone.wav on the thin clien , I see a lot of activity. </tt><tt>but when I login as any user, nothing works. using </tt><tt>gstreamer-properties, when I test esd, nothing. esdplay </tt><tt>/usr/share/sounds/phone.wav, nothing. I do not get errors from </tt><tt>esdplay, gstreamer-properties test returns "failed to construct test </tt><tt>pipeline for "ESD - Enlightenment Sound Daemon" "tcpdump | grep </tt><tt>16001" does not return any activity. </tt><tt>I think this is a rights issue, or setup of esd, but I am unable to </tt><tt>locate / or solve the issue. Any help, guidence would be appreciated. </tt> <pre style="margin: 0em;">I thank you in advance for any assistance solving this issue, norm </pre>