I am trying to play my audio files at work from my home computer over ssh. The computer I use at work is windows and so I use Putty to make that connection. However when I mplayer file.mp3, the file starts to play, but I am assuming it's playing on my home computer.....so, I am wondering, how do I forward the audio to my remote computer?

and no, can't use a CD... I work in a car with no CD player, and the computer is a Panasonic Toughbook with no CD-ROM... options are limited.

What you are asking to do would be rather difficult because you would need to setup a sound server that is able to redirect sound from the local machine over TCP/IP to your work machine.

It would be much easier to simply mount the home computer over SSHFS and play the songs locally on the work machine. This way you are using whatever media player is native to the work machine and you won't need to muck around with pushing actual audio over the net.

Alternately you could run an audio streaming daemon on the home computer, essentially creating your own Internet radio station. This would be relatively simple, and it is a well documented process, but you wouldn't have direct control over the songs that are playing (at least, not through the client media player).

Thanks, I'll give the sshfs a try. I have never heard of that

it doesn't look like I can use sshfs with putty, so I guess I'll have to go with the audio streaming daemon. Thanks again

Did you get this working? If so, how? I have been trying to do this forever.

I think that once you get ssh you could then nc the file over to the local system.

Might look at this too. http://wiki.fireflymediaserver.org/SSH_Tunnel