Playing music from a remote desktop

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Here's the situation:

Much of my music collection is on my main pc, running under xp pro. I
have a laptop which I use to connect wirelessly to the main pc mostly
because I like to sit in a more comfortable room and work on
documents.

It occurred to me that I could run a digital cable from my external
soundcard attached to the main pc and connect it to a sound system in
the more comfortable room, controlling music choice from the laptop.

However; I can only get the music to play on the laptop, even though
the relevant program (iTunes) exists only on the main pc.

Any idea how I can tell the main pc to play the music through the
soundcard?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely (More info?)

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:31:15 -0000, "Robin Walker [MVP]"
<rdhw@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>Pete <peteroe@REMOVETHISwritebros.org> wrote:
>
>> Much of my music collection is on my main pc, running under xp pro. I
>> have a laptop which I use to connect wirelessly to the main pc mostly
>> because I like to sit in a more comfortable room and work on
>> documents.
>>
>> It occurred to me that I could run a digital cable from my external
>> soundcard attached to the main pc and connect it to a sound system in
>> the more comfortable room, controlling music choice from the laptop.
>>
>> However; I can only get the music to play on the laptop, even though
>> the relevant program (iTunes) exists only on the main pc.
>
>On the RDP login dialog, before loggin in, click Options, click tab "Local
>Resources", then under "Remote computer sound", select "Leave at remote
>computer".

Just like that. Fantastic - thank you.