<br><tt><font size=2>José Pablo Méndez Soto <auxcri@gmail.com> wrote
on 04/03/2011 04:19:59:<br>
[SNIP]<br>
> I need to shadow the local user because of drivers and sound <br>
> requirements. Here is the scenario:</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> I need to join a webex meeting, a remote presenter
(another coworker<br>
> within the company) will share his desktop and establish an audio
<br>
> conference on the local session.</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> I will be sitting next to another person in the
local session.</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> The audio jack of the server PC is split in 2
ports.</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> I will shadow the local session to participate
in the remote <br>
> presentation, the 2 PCs are next to each other, so my coworker will
<br>
> have a set of headphones and I will have the other, sharing the <br>
> audio directly from the source, and I will get the video from the
NX session</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>NX should work with audio, but I haven't bothered
with it</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>so I don't know if it does . . </font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>If the machines are next to each other then you can
just use vnc</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>(eg. tightvnc) anyway.</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>> If I establish a session from the NX server itself,
then we get no <br>
> audio because the webex meeting is not linked to the local session,
<br>
> even when the client runs on the server itself, the meeting was <br>
> started on a remote session so that it can be shadowed.</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> How, then, can I shadow the local user?<br>
</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>Log in at the first machine's console.</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>At a command line, run:-</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> x11vnc -usepw
-display :0</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>You will need a password in :-</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2> ~/.vnc/passwd</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>Which you can set using:-</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2> x11vnc -storepasswd</font></tt>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>Log in to the other machine.</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>Run:-</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2> vncviewer server-machine-IP:0</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>> <br>
> THanks,<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> José Pablo Méndez<br>
</font></tt>