Has anyone found a solution to the problem of not being able to leave sound on the remote machine when connecting through remote desktop. My audio hardware works fine if logged in to machine directly but when logging in with remote desktop my audio hardware disappears from control panel->sounds and audio devices, under the audio panel the device is listed as Microsoft RDP audio driver instead of my usual audio hardware. Yes I do have the option to leave audio on remote machine selected. I have not tried adding the /console to the Remote Desktop shortcut command. Has anyone tried this and can verify it as a solution?

The solution is to have the user that will be logged in with remote desktop to also already have logged into the remote machine locally.

I've had the same problem for months. When I remote desktop from my laptop (client) to my desktop (server), and instruct it to leave the sound on the desktop, at some point I get a message about a bad direct sound driver being installed, and, as you'd expect, no sound. The weird thing is that if I start the sound (usually Winamp) playing, on the server machine, and then log on remotely from my client machine, it'll keep playing for a little while, then up pops the error message, and voila, no more sound. Anyone have a clue what's going on here? Thanks in advance! Jason