Have you tried redirecting the port in SSH? Then you get the native PA with SSH. I am not sure if there is some standard port. Fred Frigerio On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Quinn Plattel <qiet72 at gmail.com> wrote: > Here is pactl stat on the client side: > > > PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat > ------------------------------------------------- > Using private memory pool with 1024 slots of size 16,0 KiB each, total size > is 16,0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 16344 > Trying to connect to > /home/user/.pulse/fbd5d27658d3fcf30cb25bf800531799:runtime/native... > connect(): No such file or directory (2) > Trying to connect to /var/run/pulse/native... > SHM possible: no > > Protocol version: remote 16, local 16 > Negotiated SHM: no > Currently in use: 1 blocks containing 16,0 KiB bytes total. > Allocated during whole lifetime: 263989 blocks containing 231,3 MiB bytes > total. > > Sample cache size: 0 B > User name: pulse > Host Name: Nokia-N900 > Server Name: pulseaudio > Server Version: 0.9.15 > Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 48000Hz > > Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right > Default Sink: sink.music > Default Source: source.record > Cookie: 26e54bb2 > ------------------------------------------------- > > br, > Quinn > > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Quinn Plattel <qiet72 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> This is interesting: >> >> client: ssh -XL 4713:localhost:4713 user at server >> server: PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat >> ---------------------------------------- >> Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size >> is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472 >> Trying to connect to >> /home/quinn/.pulse/1ffe0fd6b5c9262aaa374e734c2cc8d0-runtime/native... >> SHM possible: yes >> Protocol version: remote 16, local 16 >> Negotiated SHM: yes >> Currently in use: 1 blocks containing 63.9 KiB bytes total. >> Allocated during whole lifetime: 15741 blocks containing 81.5 MiB bytes >> total. >> Sample cache size: 0 B >> User name: quinn >> Host Name: server >> Server Name: pulseaudio >> Server Version: 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty >> Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz >> Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right >> Default Sink: auto_null >> Default Source: auto_null.monitor >> Cookie: 6ccbf517 >> ---------------------------------------- >> server: export PULSE_SERVER=localhost:4713 >> server: PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat >> --------------------------------------- >> Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size >> is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472 >> Trying to connect to localhost:4713... >> connect(): Connection refused >> Connection failure: Connection refused >> --------------------------------------- >> >> Ideas? >> >> Quinn >> >> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> 'Twas brillig, and Quinn Plattel at 20/05/11 15:52 did gyre and gimble: >>> > I am currently trying to attempt to redirect pulse audio sound from a >>> > server to a client through ssh. I am bit unclear on what the correct >>> > way is of doing it. >>> >>> Firstly, I wrote up how our X11 piggy backing stuff work here: >>> >>> >>> http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-is-confusing-defuzzing-part-2-pulseaudio/ >>> >>> >>> Technically we do not tunnel over SSH directly (this can of course be >>> done, but not automatically as SSH does not know about PA in the same >>> way it knows about X11). We can however piggy back on the X11 forwarding >>> built into SSH for our authentication (cookie) and server connection >>> strings. >>> >>> If this is on a private network (direct routing) then the built in way >>> is the best, but it doesn't go over SSH. You just need to ensure the >>> machine you're sshing from has the netwrok protocol module loaded into >>> PA (pactl load-module module-protocol-native-tcp, or put it in your >>> default.pa) and make sure port 4713/tcp is open for external >>> connections. >>> >>> Also ensure that module-x11-publish is loaded on the client side and you >>> should get some interesting results from "xprop -root | grep PULSE". >>> >>> Then when you ssh with x11 forwarding running the xprop command on the >>> remote machine should show you the same results. >>> >>> >>> >>> If you cannot use the direct connection, just setup TCP tunnels in your >>> SSH config and then hack the PULSE_SERVER property or env var on the >>> remote machine to point to e.g. localhost:4713 which will actually be a >>> tunnel back to localhost:4713 on the remote machine. The PULSE_COOKIE >>> stuff already forwarded should be enough for auth. >>> >>> For debugging connections: >>> >>> PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat >>> >>> This shows you e.g. the server name it's trying to connect to etc. >>> >>> >>> Hope that helps (although I wrote it really quick so apologies if it >>> doesn't! I'll clarify later if needs be :D) >>> >>> 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/] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pulseaudio-discuss mailing list >>> pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de >>> https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Best regards/Med venlig hilsen, > Quinn Plattel > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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