From a former topic: To get Server 2003 to play audio at the machine while logged in remotely you have to specify Remote Desktop Connection to leave sound at server, and you have to login to the server with the /console option enabled. You can edit the Remote Desktop Connection short cut to read like this: %SystemRoot%\System32\mstsc.exe /console Then you'll be able to hear audio at the server. Let me describe my problem a little better: I want to remote desktop into a server (Win Server 08) and be able to turn music on in that server. I want the server to play the music, not the remote client. What steps do I need to take to get the server to enable it's audio device when remotely logged in? When I click the volume icon on the task bar, it tells me there is no audio device installed. This is only an issue while remotely accessing the device. Locally, the audio is working fine. The above quote was an old thread that I thought would solve my issue, but no luck. Thanks for any help you can provide. -sheggen

I'm sorry but........enlighten me please..........what would be the point of remoting in to a server and then playing music on it when you can't hear it yourself? Besides being a complete waste of server resources it just plain old makes no sense.

Because the server sits on an entertainment center and serves one purpose: put music on my audio receiver. It makes perfect sense not to want a monitor, keyboard, and mouse sitting on my entertainment center next to my TV in my living room. A complete waste of resources is the box sitting in my attic doing nothing. Now it serves a purpose; provide me with the soothing sounds of Meatball singing "Bat out of Hell" Are you enlightened?

My mistake. I assumed we were talking about a server, not a PC sitting in your living room. As such, it would have been a waste of resources. Sorry but, being a tech head and working in industry to me a server is something you mount in a rack and run a server OS on and provide network services with. Having said that, I honestly don't know if you can do what you wish. I do know if it were me and I couldn't find a simpler way, I would put the PC back in my office, attach it with a KVM ((I have one of those) to a monitor/mouse/keyboard and I would run a speaker cable from there to my home theatre system. Then I could sit at the console and start the music and hear it on my home theatre system. Ok wait, I lied. I'd really just whip out my iPod and plug it in to my home theatre system directly and play music from it. It holds all the music that's on my computer anyhow.