You will notice that the audio CD is inserted but is not recognized. I’ll see if I can put a photo here showing the RDP session… I am on one, the store systems are on the other. Physically there are two lans about 1200 miles apart connected by a VPN. I’ll ask them to put it back in tomorrow and will take a look. I think they removed the CD from the system and now they’ve gone home.
It is a feature of Windows that things only work if you do not need them. The remote account I use does have administrator privileges. I do not know what the Administrator account password is on the remote system.
The problem is that I cannot access a CD in the drive, though they can do so locally. Additionally, I can play music that already exists on the PC and they hear it on the local speakers. If I look at the sound properties I do see a playback device and it is enabled. I login to the remote PC, open WMP and it says “unknown CD” in the D drive and will not even attempt to play it. PS – My local Explorer ‘view’ of the remote PC showed that the remote Explorer recognised the contents of the remote optical drive as an Audio CD.
I can confirm that – if an audio CD is in the optical drive of the remote PC – it’s possible to control it (play, skip track, etc.) via RDP using WMP (and VLC… I checked :)). Backspacer – I tried this with 2 Windows 7 PC’s and it didn’t work for me either at first… I could see the CD playing in the remote PC’s Media Player but couldn’t see a Playback device on the remote PC (even though I could see a Recording device on the remote PC).ġ) Running MSTSC on the local PC from an account with Administrative privileges.Ģ) Changing the local MSTSC option for Remote audio playback to Play on remote computer.ģ) RDP’ing to the Administrator account on the remote PC (I haven’t tried using an account with Administrative privileges or a less privileged account).