Rallias Ubernerd's Journal: My Unique Issues

I have a unique situation. Attached to the internet is my router. Attached to my router is 3 computers, 2 of which we will ignore, one via wifi. Attached to this computer is another computer via ethernet cable, with a KVM switch for both of them. Attached to the furthest from the internet one, i have a pair of speakers and a speaker. Is there any way to make these two items shared between both of these computers? One machine is Windows Vista, controling the printer and speakers, and one is Ubuntu 10.04.

Speakers and a speaker?

[Qzukk]

I think you meant printer, no? With windows running the printer, you should be able to share it on windows and have linux use CUPS to print to that printer. http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html [faqs.org]

For sound, there's various network sound servers that have varying levels of suck. Applications expect to talk to the driver directly, and sound servers get in the way of this process leading to applications that don't know about the sound server being unable to work correctly.

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[Rallias Ubernerd]

so can i install it so that it plays on a windows machine? Or do i need to do some other funky stuff?

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[Qzukk]

You'll need to do lots of funky stuff, but it'll play from the linux machine to the windows machine.

As I said, whatever applications you want to play sound with will need to either support PulseAudio directly or have a plugin that lets it play sound to PulseAudio, or at least use ALSA so you can tell ALSA to send all the sound to PulseAudio instead of your soundcard.

Once you have a PulseAudio server running in windows, read http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/FAQ#HowdoIusePulseAudiooverthenetwork [pulseaudio.org]

Of course, now that