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>13.4.1. <A
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>What do I need for network transparency?</P
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> </B
>Enable it in the <SPAN
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><SPAN
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>KDE</SPAN
> Control Center</SPAN
> <SPAN
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>Sound Server</SPAN
> settings
(<SPAN
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>enable X11 server for security information</SPAN
> and
<SPAN
CLASS="GUILABEL"
>network transparency</SPAN
>). Then copy your
<TT
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>.mcoprc</TT
> to all machines you plan to use network
transparency from. Log in again. Make sure that the hosts that interact know
each other by name (<SPAN
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>i.e.</SPAN
> they have resolvable names or are in
<TT
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>/etc/hosts</TT
>).</P
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>This should be all you need to do. However, if it still doesn't work here are
some additional details. The <SPAN
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> sound server process,
<SPAN
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>, should only run on one host, the one with the sound
card where the sound should be played. It can be started automatically on login
by <SPAN
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>KDE</SPAN
> (if you configure that in <SPAN
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>), or manually using something like:</P
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>artsd</B
> <TT
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>-n -F 5 -S 8192</TT
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>The <TT
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>-n</TT
> parameter is for network transparency, while the
others configure latency.</P
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>Your <TT
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>on all machines involved, in order for network transparency to work, This
is what is enabled by the <SPAN
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>X11 server for security
information</SPAN
> control panel setting.</P
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>Finally, in any <SPAN
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>KDE</SPAN
> version in the 2.0.x series, there is a bug which
applies if you don't have a domain name set. Clients of
<SPAN
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>artsd</SPAN
> try to find where to connect to via the
<TT
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><I
>hostname</I
></TT
>.<TT
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><I
>domainname</I
></TT
>
combination. If your domain name is empty, it will try to connect to
<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>hostname</I
></TT
>. (note the extra dot). Adding an entry like
this to <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/etc/hosts</TT
> (<SPAN
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>i.e.</SPAN
> <TT
CLASS="USERINPUT"
><B
>orion.</B
></TT
> if
your hostname is <SPAN
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>orion</SPAN
>) works around
the problem.</P
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>13.4.2. </B
>How do I debug network transparency if it doesn't work?</P
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> </B
>Assuming you have the <SPAN
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>KDE</SPAN
> source code, go to <TT
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>kdelibs/arts/examples</TT
>, and run
<TT
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><B
><B
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>make</B
> <TT
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>check</TT
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> to compile
some programs, including <SPAN
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>./referenceinfo</B
> <TT
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>global:Arts_SimpleSoundServer</TT
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>The output will indicate the host name and port being used by <SPAN
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>aRts</SPAN
>. For
example, <TT
CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
>tcp:orion:1698</TT
> would mean that any
client trying to use network transparency should know how to reach host
<SPAN
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>orion</SPAN
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