Re: Remote Control of Volume

Dances With Crows wrote:

No problem, just make sure the permissions on the device files used to
play sounds are set properly. I think they're using udev on Fedora now,
so that's everything under /dev/sound/ and /dev/snd/ . In many cases,
these devices are 0660 and owned by root:audio, so everybody who wants
to play sounds needs to be in the audio group.

Device permissions, probably. Check those first.

Hello, Dances, and thanks for replying. I do not have a /dev/sound directory but do have a /dev/snd directory on my Fedora Core 5 platform.
There is no "audio" group. Logging in from the local computer gives temporary ownership of /dev/snd to the login user name. However, when remotely logging in via SSH using the same user name does not temporarily transfer ownership of /dev/snd (it is still shown with an owner of root).

I did a groupadd audio then a usermod -Gaudio wood and then a chown -R root:audio on /dev/snd but still had the same problem associating the local sound mixer with the local sound card when doing a remote login.

If I permanently do a chown -R wood:root /dev/snd this fixes the remote login issue but now I've made myself (wood) the permanent owner of /dev/snd.

There seems to be a distinction as far as obtaining temporary file/directory ownership when one logs on at a console vs remotely using the same user name in both cases. Sincerely,
.

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