Hi Tom 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Ward at 30/12/08 20:46 did gyre and gimble: > I have an XP box on which I wish to play sound from a linux box. > The XP box has a very restrictive firewall, I already tunnel out of > the XP box to allow VNC, ssh, etc. access inwards using putty > > > i.e. something like below for VNC > plink -pw password -R5906:XP_IP_ADDRESS:5906 -l unixlogin linuxbox > > > I have looked through all the docu8mentation of pulseaudio and can't > find a reference to which ports I would need to tunnel, anyone done > this, any ideas? > > thanks for your help #define PA_NATIVE_DEFAULT_PORT 4713 So that's 4713. Incidentally, if you were to run (as root) "netstat -ltp" it would have shown you (the documentation should make this info available of course!, but it's quite handy to know about netstat) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]