Re:Network Audio

[Adam <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>way, or protocol, to handle sound over a network like X handles graphics?  
>>So if the "terminal" has a sound card the audio will come out their and 
>>not from the speakers connected to the main box,  in fact I'd like to take 
>>the sound card out of the server.
>Yeah, I think it's called "output redirection"! :)
>Suppose you have NFS, and you want to play a sound file on yonder
>workstation....
>cat star_wars_theme.au > yonder:/dev/audio
>Leeme know if this works. We used to run "Radio free ethernet" on our
>Sparc network at ML in the early 90's.....

Either there is some special NFS setup required to do this (exactly what
would I put in my export file) or Linux does not support this.  At least
my fiddleing couldn't get anything but a "estate1:/dev/audio" file not 
found from a box which could mount nfs shares like /home, etc...