I have a problem establiching connection to my pulseaudio server. I start my server like this: root at vaio:/var/run/pulse# pulseaudio -vvvv i have configured my server as follows: root at vaio:/var/run/pulse# pulseaudio -C Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information. >>> dump ### Configuration dump generated at Tue Dec 25 15:32:06 2007 load-module module-esound-protocol-unix load-module module-native-protocol-unix load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp load-module module-native-protocol-tcp load-module module-zeroconf-publish load-module module-volume-restore load-module module-rescue-streams load-module module-cli exit_on_eof=1 add-autoload-source input module-alsa-source device=hw:0 source_name=input add-autoload-sink output module-alsa-sink device=hw:0 sink_name=output set-default-sink output set-default-source input ### EOF Added user seepaul to groups pulse-access and pulse-rt: seepaul at vaio:~$ sudo usermod -aG pulse-access seepaul seepaul at vaio:~$ sudo usermod -aG pulse-rt seepaul seepaul at vaio:~$ groups seepaul adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner netdev lpadmin powerdev admin pulse-access pulse-rt And created symlink to esd.auth file and changed permisions: seepaul at vaio:~$ ln -sf /var/run/pulse/.esd_auth ~/.esd_auth seepaul at vaio:~$ sudo chmod 644 /var/run/pulse/.esd_auth seepaul at vaio:~$ ls -al /var/run/pulse/.esd_auth -rw-r--r-- 1 pulse pulse 16 2007-12-25 15:02 /var/run/pulse/.esd_auth So, now when i want to play a file i get an error message: seepaul at vaio:~$ paplay foo.wav Connection failure: Access denied The error messages put out from the server is simliar: root at vaio:/var/run/pulse# pulseaudio -vvvv main.c: Found user 'pulse' (UID 114) and group 'pulse' (GID 123). main.c: Successfully dropped root privileges. module.c: Loaded "module-esound-protocol-unix" (index: #0; argument: ""). protocol-native.c: Allowing access to group 'pulse-access'. protocol-native.c: loading cookie from disk. module.c: Loaded "module-native-protocol-unix" (index: #1; argument: ""). module.c: Loaded "module-esound-protocol-tcp" (index: #2; argument: ""). protocol-native.c: Allowing access to group 'pulse-access'. protocol-native.c: using already loaded auth cookie. protocol-native.c: Allowing access to group 'pulse-access'. protocol-native.c: using already loaded auth cookie. module.c: Loaded "module-native-protocol-tcp" (index: #3; argument: ""). module-zeroconf-publish.c: Publishing services in Zeroconf module.c: Loaded "module-zeroconf-publish" (index: #4; argument: ""). module-volume-restore.c: starting with empty ruleset. module.c: Loaded "module-volume-restore" (index: #5; argument: ""). module.c: Loaded "module-rescue-streams" (index: #6; argument: ""). core-subscribe.c: dropped redundant event. alsa-util.c: Using mixer control "PCM". sink.c: created 0 "output" with sample spec "s16le 2ch 44100Hz" source.c: created 0 "output.monitor" with sample spec "s16le 2ch 44100Hz" core-subscribe.c: dropped redundant event. core-subscribe.c: dropped redundant event. core-subscribe.c: dropped redundant event. core-subscribe.c: dropped redundant event. core-subscribe.c: dropped redundant event. module-alsa-sink.c: using 8 fragments of size 1408 bytes. module.c: Loaded "module-alsa-sink" (index: #7; argument: "device=hw:0 sink_name=output"). main.c: Daemon startup complete. module.c: Unloading "module-alsa-sink" (index: #7). module-rescue-streams.c: No sink inputs to move away. module-rescue-streams.c: No source outputs to move away. sink.c: freed 0 "output" source.c: freed 0 "output.monitor" module.c: Unloaded "module-alsa-sink" (index: #7). socket-server.c: TCP connection accepted by tcpwrap. client.c: created 0 "Native client (TCP/IP client from 192.168.0.55:46712)" protocol-native.c: Denied access to client with invalid authorization data. client.c: freed 0 "Native client (TCP/IP client from 192.168.0.55:46712)" Client and Server are on the same machine. My version of pa is 0.9.5-5ubuntu4.1. The same goes for libpulse. Does anybody knows a solution for me to get seepaul authorized by ps-server? Thx
