From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 12:18:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8457F16A4AB for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:18:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gandalf@designaproduct.biz) Received: from designaproduct.biz (135-shost.hostoffice.hu [195.228.74.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CDE843CF3 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:15:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gandalf@designaproduct.biz) Received: from [172.16.0.43] (localhost.msnet [127.0.0.1]) by designaproduct.biz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C8591DD424 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:12:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <456ECB65.8010601@designaproduct.biz> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:15:33 +0100 From: Laszlo Nagy User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: skype on diskless machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:18:58 -0000 Hello, I have an appserver (6.1-RELEASE-p10) and many diskless clients connected to it. I'm using the diskless clients as X terminals (gdm is running on the appserver). Any user is able to use any terminal, because they run all applications on the appserver. Here is the basic problem: users need to use skype. I have two options: #1 Run skype on the diskless machine. Then it can handle audio I/O correctly, but the users cannot save their login names and passwords. (This option is also good because the diskless machine can "kldload linux" while the appserver does not need to, e.g. the appserver will be able to run application in native mode only). #2 Run skype on the appserver. Then users can save their skype login information but they are not able to make calls. Well, I could forward the audio output to the client using a sound daemon (e.g. "esd -promiscuous -tcp -pubic -port 1500" on the diskless and "esddsp -v -s diskless101:1500 skype_bin") but I could not find out how to forward digital input. I see no way to forward digital input through a sound daemon, so using a microphone would be impossible. The question is, how can I solve this problem? Should I use #1 and tell my users that they must not save their skype login names and passwords? Or should I use #2 in combination with a special sound daemon that is able to forward digital input as well? (How?) Thanks, Laszlo