Hi, I have a suggestion for this FAQ section: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/FAQ/#index33h3 The good news is that the instructions led me to find the correct solution and get audio working, which was great! But it's a bit confusing about where to do the actions specified. Here is my version: The following applies to Cygwin/X, but could be adapted for other Windows pulseaudio installations. Run the Cywin setup app in Windows and choose "pulseaudio" and "pulseaudio-module-x11" -- then let the setup determine the dependencies and accept those. Now you have an installed pulseaudio.exe (in <cygwindir>/bin) but it is not yet running, and it should be running in daemon mode (which is not the default). So in Windows, go to <cygwindir>/etc/pulse. Edit daemon.conf and change daemonize = no to daemonize = yes Then in that same Windows directory, edit default.pa and add: load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1;192.168.1.50 In the Network Access area. This allows host 192.168.1.50 (in this example) to access Windows pulseaudio. You can specify a network range instead with CIDR notation. A hostname may work, if it's defined in Windows hosts file. That's it for Windows config files. Now run the command pulseaudio.exe and you might see a warning or two, but no errors. Last thing in Windows is to follow the usual Windows steps for setting up pulseaudio.exe to run when Windows boots. Now on the Linux side, first kill pulseaudio, if it's running. Then edit /etc/pulse/client.conf and add: default-server = foobar where foobar is the hostname or IP of your Windows box. Now in Linux start up an app and play some audio. At this point Windows should pop up and ask permission to open its firewall to the incoming Pulseaudio traffic, say yes to that. Now you should hear the sound from Linux being played in Windows! Note: with this setup, as far as I know, you can't run Pulseaudio daemon anymore in Linux (as long as linux /etc/pulse/client.conf has another server configured). Every Linux sound will go to Windows. That is what I wanted, as I have a headless Linux box with no speakers attached and I am accessing the Linux X-clients with Cygwin/X. Also, if you start/restart Windows pulseaudio.exe, you will need to restart any running Linux audio clients. -- -- Doug McCasland
