Le 09/05/2018 à 09:34, Christophe Lohr a écrit : > Many thanks for your advice. The 'system-wide' strategy is the solution > to my problem. > > I configured it according to: > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/ > https://gist.github.com/awidegreen/6003640 > https://fhackts.wordpress.com/2017/07/01/running-pulseaudio-system-wide-with-pacmd-on-arch/ > > This seems ok now! hum hum... in fact, no :-(  this doesn't work so much (my first tests were probably not consistent) I don't know if clients can't reach the server, or if the server rejects connection $ pacat Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused What does this means? How may I get more detailed log messages? (from clients, from server) A way to monitor the activity of the server? The server is executed as follow: $ pgrep -a pulseaudio 19813 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --disallow-exit --realtime --log-target=journal --daemonize=no /etc/pulse/client.conf contains: default-server = /var/run/pulse/native autospawn = no I am member of the 'pulse-acces' group: $ id uid=1001(clohr) gid=1001(clohr) groups=1001(clohr),27(sudo),29(audio),110(wireshark),114(pulse-access) So, what's wrong? Any idea is welcome Best regards Christophe