'Twas brillig, and Matt Zagrabelny at 24/10/10 11:53 did gyre and gimble: > paplay /usr/share/tuxtype/sounds/splat.wav > Connection failure: Access denied This generally means you do not have permission to speak to the PA on zombie... How did you load the module-native-protocol-tcp on zombie? You maybe want to pass auth_anonymous=1 or auth_ip_acl=<netmask> to allow your localhost to use Zombie without any further authentication. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]