Can you hear audio from local computer on remote desktop computer?


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  On 03/05/2013 at 15:22, JSmooth25 said:

I guess what I wanted to know was whether Windows remote desktop connection alone transmits sounds from my local machine to my remote machine (my work machine), not the other way around.

So you have a remote desktop session from your home machine to your work machine and you want to know if you can hear your home machine while you're logged in locally to your work machine while that session is up? In which case, the answer is no. But if you were to do a remote desktop session from your work machine to your home machine, you could.

LOL but the OP didn't say he wants to bring the whole desktop to the remote PC including the display, and redirected drives and log out that user account on the host. RDP is appropriate for that.

  On 03/05/2013 at 15:22, JSmooth25 said:

I guess what I wanted to know was whether Windows remote desktop connection alone transmits sounds from my local machine to my remote machine (my work machine), not the other way around.

Why would you need to do this? You want the PC you're sitting at to pipe its audio to the computer you're remoting into? I can't even begin to see the point...

  On 04/05/2013 at 01:20, UXGaurav said:

LOL but the OP didn't say he wants to bring the whole desktop to the remote PC including the display, and redirected drives and log out that user account on the host. RDP is appropriate for that.

He didn't mention that he didn't want to bring the whole desktop over, he did ask if it supported being able to bring audio over. Unless I am reading this wrong.

  On 03/05/2013 at 15:22, JSmooth25 said:

I guess what I wanted to know was whether Windows remote desktop connection alone transmits sounds from my local machine to my remote machine (my work machine), not the other way around.

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