<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN'> <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=us-ascii"> <style>BODY{font:10pt Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif}</style></head><body> I seem to have a problem, thus:- OpenSuse 11.4 with kde 4.6.4 (32bit) Machine authenticates users from a Suse ldap server and gets it's users home directories from a NFS4 server via autofs Everything works fine except sound Sound for root works fine ( as it is locally authenticated and has local home ) All users get the KDE dum de dum startup sound OK however unless I prefer xine as the backend over gstreamer in the KDE phonon configuration  most apps  like flash in browsers vlc umplayer etc don't have any sound As root the pulse audio volume control works but as users I get connection refused. This may be nothing to do with anything this lists deals with but I am getting really desperate here.. any advice would be appreciated Thanks Mal   </body></html>