Sound, VNC and multiple users

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 16:28 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I currently have sound working on my GNOME session (Fedora 9).
> 
> When my wife connects via VNC from her machine upstairs, there is no
> sound (the speaker icon in the top right shows the cross on red
> symbol).
> 
> Is it possible to get sound over a VNC session (using the speakers on
> the VNC user's machine)?

VNC doesn't support sound. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software

There are a number of sound servers which can pipe sound over the local
network, but I've never done this myself. Perhaps others on this list
could suggest a solution.

poc