Hello, I am currently trying to use pulseaudio in order to transfer sound from machine A to machine B. So what I would like is: if sound.wav is played on A (ex: aplay sound.wav) then we can hear sound.wav on B speakers. Both machines are Debian Etch (testing), with alsa, alsa-plugins, ... (libasound2, libasound2-plugins) here is what I 've tried: Machine A (192.168.20.1): 1. "redirection" of alsa device to pulse: $ cat .asoundrc pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } 2. pulseaudio -nC load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1;192.168.0.0/16 auth-anonymous=1 set-sink-volume rtp 0x10000 set-sink-mute rtp 0 set-source-volume rtp.monitor 0x10000 set-source-mute rtp.monitor 0 set-default-sink rtp set-default-source rtp.monitor Machine B (192.168.21.0): 1. export PULSE_SERVER=192.168.20.1 2. pulseaudio -nC load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=alsa load-module module-rtp-recv sink=alsa set-sink-volume alsa 0x10000 set-sink-mute alsa 0 Then different tries on A: aplay sound.wav paplay sound.wav alsaplayer sound.wav But I don't get any sound on B. if I try: play-file /path/to/somesound.wav in B's pulse tty, I have sound, so B's sink is OK I guess. What am I missing? Any help would be much appreciated ! Thanks