SLES 10 and Java 1.6
When I play sound through a java player it plays on the server and not the thin client. All other sound devices play fine, so I know esound is on and working just great. Any suggestions???? No error messages or anything.

I have posted on multiple sites and gotten the same thing, nothing =). This is how to replicate

Install Suse Linux Enterprise 10 and enable XDMCP
Install Opensuse 10.2 on another computer
Make sure you have a fully supported sound card with Alsa and esound runnning on both client and server.
run for example from the client X :1 -query "server ip" -once
This will attach you to the server as a terminal client
Download and run http://java.sun.com/products/java-me...JavaSoundDemo/
The sound will play on the server and not the terminal client

Please note that this happens on ANY jave sound application the JavaSoundDemo is only an example.
I have tested this with java versions 1.4.2 all the way to 1.6.1.

Any Ideas yet, this is still an issue.

The issue was Java was playing to the server sound card and not the thinclients.

The solution was setting environment variables in the start up script of the Java application. Here is the variables I set.

export AUDIOSERVER=$XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME:8000
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/audiooss/libaudiooss.so

Of course you have to obtain libaudiooss.so. Which is usually included in ltsp packages.