Hi, Here are my results.... On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > 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). > You are right. I used the terminology because of the way I am ssh'ing from and to. 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. > "xprop -root | grep PULSE_COOKIE" does not turn up any results on the local sound server or on the remote sound client side "dpkg -L pulseaudio | grep start-pulseaudio-x11" does not turn up any results on the local sound server side but it does turn up results on the remote sound client side. > 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" > pacmd gives the error "No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon." on the local sound server side but I managed to get around this by: # stop pulseaudio # pulseaudio --system --high-priority -C and then at the pulseaudio command line: list-modules Here is the module: ------------------------------- index: 18 name: <module-native-protocol-tcp> argument: <auth-anonymous=1> used: -1 load once: no properties: module.author = "Lennart Poettering" module.description = "Native protocol (TCP sockets)" module.version = "0.9.15" ------------------------------- > 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). > No problems there. > > 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. > "xprop -root | grep PULSE_COOKIE" does not give any results on the remote machine. > 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 > > Results of "PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat" on the remote sound client side: ----------------------------------------- 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... SHM possible: yes Protocol version: remote 16, local 16 Negotiated SHM: no Connection failure: Connection terminated ----------------------------------------- Results on the local sound server side: ------------------------------------------ E: protocol-native.c: protocol error, kicking client ------------------------------------------ > 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/] > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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