Hi, This is interesting: client: ssh -XL 4713:localhost:4713 user@server server: 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 65472 Trying to connect to /home/quinn/.pulse/1ffe0fd6b5c9262aaa374e734c2cc8d0-runtime/native... SHM possible: yes Protocol version: remote 16, local 16 Negotiated SHM: yes Currently in use: 1 blocks containing 63.9 KiB bytes total. Allocated during whole lifetime: 15741 blocks containing 81.5 MiB bytes total. Sample cache size: 0 B User name: quinn Host Name: server Server Name: pulseaudio Server Version: 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right Default Sink: auto_null Default Source: auto_null.monitor Cookie: 6ccbf517 ---------------------------------------- server: export PULSE_SERVER=localhost:4713 server: 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 65472 Trying to connect to localhost:4713... connect(): Connection refused Connection failure: Connection refused --------------------------------------- Ideas? Quinn <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Colin Guthrie <<a href="mailto:gmane@colin.guthr.ie">gmane@colin.guthr.ie</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi, 'Twas brillig, and Quinn Plattel at 20/05/11 15:52 did gyre and gimble: <div class="im">> I am currently trying to attempt to redirect pulse audio sound from a > server to a client through ssh. I am bit unclear on what the correct > way is of doing it. </div>Firstly, I wrote up how our X11 piggy backing stuff work here: <a href="http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-is-confusing-defuzzing-part-2-pulseaudio/" target="_blank">http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-is-confusing-defuzzing-part-2-pulseaudio/</a> Technically we do not tunnel over SSH directly (this can of course be done, but not automatically as SSH does not know about PA in the same way it knows about X11). We can however piggy back on the X11 forwarding built into SSH for our authentication (cookie) and server connection strings. If this is on a private network (direct routing) then the built in way is the best, but it doesn't go over SSH. You just need to ensure the machine you're sshing from has the netwrok protocol module loaded into PA (pactl load-module module-protocol-native-tcp, or put it in your <a href="http://default.pa" target="_blank">default.pa</a>) and make sure port 4713/tcp is open for external connections. Also ensure that module-x11-publish is loaded on the client side and you should get some interesting results from "xprop -root | grep PULSE". Then when you ssh with x11 forwarding running the xprop command on the remote machine should show you the same results. If you cannot use the direct connection, just setup TCP tunnels in your SSH config and then hack the PULSE_SERVER property or env var on the remote machine to point to e.g. localhost:4713 which will actually be a tunnel back to localhost:4713 on the remote machine. The PULSE_COOKIE stuff already forwarded should be enough for auth. For debugging connections: PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat This shows you e.g. the server name it's trying to connect to etc. Hope that helps (although I wrote it really quick so apologies if it doesn't! I'll clarify later if needs be :D) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)<a href="http://colin.guthr.ie" target="_blank">colin.guthr.ie</a> <a href="http://colin.guthr.ie/" target="_blank">http://colin.guthr.ie/</a> Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [<a href="http://www.tribalogic.net/" target="_blank">http://www.tribalogic.net/</a>] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [<a href="http://www.mageia.org/" target="_blank">http://www.mageia.org/</a>] PulseAudio Hacker [<a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</a>] Trac Hacker [<a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/" target="_blank">http://trac.edgewall.org/</a>] _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de">pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de</a> <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" target="_blank">https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>