These instructions work, but it's not exactly what I wanted. I have 2 machines, each logged in. Machine A has a sound card, machine B does not. I would like to be able to sit down at machine B and run applications, whose audio will go to the speakers hooked up to A. This means that an application would have to use one machine as its X server, and another seperate machine as its pulseaudio server. What I'd really like is for the pulseaudio server at B to show the sinks/sources from A, so I could just select A's sound device as the fallback (although since it's the only device, even that wouldn't be neccesary.) This takes place over avahi right now as I understand it, but I'd like it to expand beyond that. (It's a high-speed network, but different link-level networks). On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 02:38, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > So the easiest way is to: > > 1. On the machine where you want to hear things, run paprefs and enable > network access to local sound devices. To save trouble, it's easiest to > tick the box "do not require authentication" too but I'll assume you > have not ticked this box (if things break, this is step one to check!) > 2. Ensure start-pulseaudio-x11 has been run on this machine (xprop > -root| grep PULSE will tell you) and if not, run it. > 3. ssh -X -R 4713:localhost:4713 othermachine > 4. export PULSE_SERVER=localhost > 5. Run any pulseaudio client. > > That's it. > > > This should setup a reverse SSH tunnel from the destination machine back > to the source machine. PA uses TCP port 4713 by default for it's network > support and we override the PULSE_SERVER variable on the remote machine > to point at localhost which is, in turn, a tunnel over SSH back to our > source machine which connects to the PA servers network socket. > > Other information regarding authentication etc. should be passed across > in X11 properties (the -X flag to ssh ensures this although I believe it > is generally enabled by default anyway). > > Of course if SSH were aware of PA in the same way it's aware of X11, > then this wouldn't be needed and it would just work. Perhaps one day :) > > > Hope this helps. > > 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/] > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jeremy at nickurak.ca =- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20100217/07578958/attachment.htm>
