On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 11:22 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > > On 2014-09-09 11:13, Glenn Golden wrote: > > David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com> [2014-09-09 09:56:43 +0200]: > >> > >> On 2014-09-08 20:44, Glenn Golden wrote: > >>> > >>> What's the magic incanation? Or am I entirely misinterpreting that such a > >>> thing is even possible? > >> > >> You need to load the module-native-protocol-tcp module, either using pactl > >> or through modifying the relevant .pa file. > >> > >> See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules/#index22h3 > >> for relevant options, e g if you want no security you need to give > >> auth-anonymous as an argument. > >> > > > > Hm. Still no joy. Here's what I did: > > > > On hostA, using pactl, loaded the above module with 'auth-anonymous=1' option, > > and verified that the module shows up via "pactl list modules" (with the > > option listed). Also verified that netstat now shows two listening tcp sockets > > on port 4713, one tcp4 and the other tcp6. > > > > Then on hostB, verified that it was possible to successfully connect to the > > PAD on hostA using netcat(1) via port 4713. [This was just for purpose of > > verifying that socket would accept connections, not to actually try to talk > > to the PAD]. This netcat connection attempt succeeded, and netstat indeed > > showed the incoming connect from netcat. > > > > But then from hostB, tried to contact the PAD using pactl like this: > > > > $ pactl --server=hostA list > > > > and still get 'conn refused'. > > > > Also tried several alternative formats for the server specifier (per the > > textual ddescription of $PULSE_SERVER in pulseaudio.1): > > > > --server=tcp:hostA > > --server=tcp4:hostA > > --server=tcp6:hostA > > > > and then all of the above with the port number 4713 explicitly also given. > > Also tried specifying hostA via its dotted IP address instead of IP name, > > in case there was some local name lookup issue. In all cases, conn refused. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > I just tried the same thing here and it worked just fine, so no idea. > > Maybe if you put pulseaudio in verbose log mode (run "pacmd > set-log-level 4" on hostA), and then try "pactl --sever=tcp:hostA list", > does anything interesting show up in /var/log/syslog ? Another thing to try is to enable debug logging in pactl with the PULSE_LOG environment variable. The debug logging will show where exactly libpulse is trying to connect. PULSE_LOG=99 pactl --server=hostA list -- Tanu
