Author Topic: How to play sound from remote computer without output devices plugged in?  (Read 6533 times)

banana

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Hey guys, I've got a computer that I'm just using as a home server I tend to remote into it to manage it. Since the computer is being used as a server, there are no output devices plugged into it (no speakers, headphones etc).

Now the tricky bit is hearing sounds that the computer is supposed to make -- like a dialog window with the 'Ding' sound, even with Windows Audio Service enabled & started, it doesn't get played -- presumably because there is no audio device. Yet, I want to hear this sound on the machine I'm using to remote in! How do I get the server machine to "play" the sounds anyway? I thought I could fix it by using "Stereo Mix", but I'm using pretty old hardware (so old that I actually have a first-gen 64bit processor on the machine) and "Stereo Mix" is not available.

Any suggestions on how I can accomplish this?

matt

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Re: How to play sound from remote computer without output devices plugged in?
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2014, 04:06:43 PM »
perhaps physically plugging in a set of headphones at your server (or even just a plug in the socket)

banana

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Re: How to play sound from remote computer without output devices plugged in?
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2014, 04:12:54 PM »
perhaps physically plugging in a set of headphones at your server (or even just a plug in the socket)

I considered this, but I just don't have any plugs or spare headsets around (and the good old "just buy one on ebay" doesn't really work, seeing as I live on an island in the middle of nowhere). There has to be some kind of software solution?