Thanks Colin, but after a bit of digging, I've found that IPV6 isn't included in Windows XP by default, and I definitely haven't installed it. Are there any other possibilities? On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > Jeff Hendy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to set up a Windows server to play sound from my Linux box. >> >> As far as I can tell, the Linux installation seems to be working fine, >> but I get a bunch of errors on Windows: >> >> C:\pulseaudio-0.9.6>pulseaudio.exe >> W: pulsecore/random.c: failed to get proper entropy. Falling back to seeding wit >> h current time. >> W: pulsecore/core-util.c: secure directory creation not supported on Win32. >> E: pulsecore/pid.c: stale PID file, overwriting. >> W: pulsecore/core.c: failed to allocate shared memory pool. Falling back to a no >> rmal memory pool. >> Unable to convert, filtering >> E: pulsecore/socket-server.c: socket(PF_INET6): Invalid argument >> >> My default.pa is as follows: >> load-module module-waveout >> >> load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1 >> >> .nofail >> >> Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? > > Something relating to IPV6 networking is your problem but also the > ".nofail" and it's counterpart ".fail" were not added until after 0.9.6 > IIRC (could be wrong here). > > Try disabling IPV6 somehow on windows. > > Or better yet, try to compile a newer pulseaudio for windows :) (this is > a joke unless you are a fairly good programmer!) > > Col > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss >