Hi, I think you're maybe getting a little confused by client and server in terms of how things work here (perhaps not, as I've not thoroughly read all the many posts in this thread). As I know how to do what you want to do, I'll just write the instructions here: 1. Start of on the machine you want to hear the sound on. This will be your local terminal. It's the "server" in this case as it's running the PulseAudio server. You do not need to run a PulseAudio server on the other machine, just use the PulseAudio client library for audio (either directly or via alsa-pulse plugin). 2. Open a terminal and type: "xprop -root | grep PULSE_COOKIE" Ensure this has some output. If it does not then chances are the "start-pulseaudio-x11" script was not run at login (or you have restarted your PA server after logging in). Try just running "start-pulseaudio-x11" and see if that fixes it. 3. Ensure that the tcp native protocol module is loaded. "pacmd list-modules | grep module-native-protocol-tcp" If it is not loaded, then simply type: "pactl load-module module-native-protocol-tcp" 4. SSH to your other machine: ssh -X -R4713:localhost:4713 OTHERMACHINE If you get a warning: Warning: remote port forwarding failed for listen port 4713 then chances are there is a PA daemon running there already, or you've SSH'ed twice. If the former, just change the *first* instance of 4713 to a random number of your choice (>1024). 5. On this remote machine, check your cookie is available via the xprop command show in step 2. If X11 forwarding is working properly, it should show up fine. 6. Set the PULSE_SERVER variable to the forwarded tunnel port. export PULSE_SERVER=localhost:4713 (or the port number you picked in step 4 if different) 7. Confirm it's all working: PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat Done!! So in this setup, the cookie used for authentication is forwarded automatically via piggy backing on to X11 connections but as you cannot connect directly to the machine we've had to override the PULSE_SERVER variable to go over the SSH tunnel. Below is the output from my session where I run these exact commands (note the host name in the pactl stat at the end). HTHs Col [colin at jimmy ~]$ hostname jimmy [colin at jimmy ~]$ xprop -root | grep PULSE_COOKIE PULSE_COOKIE(STRING) = "71eb0d3d53819c42957ce9......" [colin at jimmy ~]$ pacmd list-modules | grep module-native-protocol-tcp name: <module-native-protocol-tcp> [colin at jimmy ~]$ ssh -X -R 5555:localhost:4713 mediacentre Last login: Sat May 21 18:51:40 2011 from jimmy.local [media@(Media)centre ~]$ xprop -root | grep PULSE_COOKIE PULSE_COOKIE(STRING) = "71eb0d3d53819c42957ce9......" [media@(Media)centre ~]$ export PULSE_SERVER=localhost:5555 [media@(Media)centre ~]$ 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 65496 Trying to connect to localhost:5555... SHM possible: no Protocol version: remote 21, local 16 Negotiated SHM: no Currently in use: 2 blocks containing 149.9 KiB bytes total. Allocated during whole lifetime: 1220055 blocks containing 1.6 GiB bytes total. Sample cache size: 86.0 KiB User name: colin Host Name: jimmy Server Name: pulseaudio Server Version: 1.0.0-0.354.1.csg1 Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo Cookie: d7756be2 [media@(Media)centre ~]$ -- 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/]
