When using daemon mode locally on my computer it works correctly. However, if I login (using ssh -Y) to a computer with an emacs daemon running (started with emacs -Q --daemon) and use emacsclient to connect to it emacsclient does not find the server. I get the error: emacsclient -n -c emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server? To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start". emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor. Please use: --socket-name --server-file (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE) --alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR) I can get emacsclient to work if I use --server-file option after I have located the server-file. I have the following bash function which does this automatically: emc () { emacsclient -n -c --socket-name="$( (find /var/ -name server | grep emacs8060) 2> /dev/null )"} but emacclient should be able to find the socket on its own. Note that this was present in 23.1 and 23.2 as well. Bob In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.2 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2010-09-29 on *** Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10802000 configured using `configure '--prefix=/Users/name/local-emacs-bzr'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: nil value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: nil default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t