From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Suvayu Ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using tramp to connect to a remote emacs session Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:29:01 -0700 Message-ID: <4AA1F71D.8090800@gmail.com> References: <4A9EFA5A.1030002@gmail.com> <4A9FE866.8040805@gmail.com> <4AA0F465.7030504@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252128604 23972 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2009 05:30:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 05:30:04 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 05 07:29:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MjnqX-0000Y1-7W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:29:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MjnqV-0006lw-O9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:29:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjnpn-0006lp-Ni for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjnpi-0006la-Qo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:29:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41908 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjnpi-0006lX-Hi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f176.google.com ([209.85.222.176]:42636) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mjnpi-0001fV-6r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk6 with SMTP id 6so292200pzk.8 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:29:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YSZDGIElD16U6c8I+c76Hc16appds29y3Nio77+8Gok=; b=bt7bhceXY6v8VEMPw9uLp73FyeEPhpftfVwXrcenixKvgIJw0bcUVesRgdEofmLg4n GXBvCfhie3YDm/QRqddwWwf4Ng48UAs7z6rIue10uLy6mo8Wp4x8Y7eM4eBU80arSjkl RDV+MyjPOhoB41Ec73058ZdgfZwO8v6wfdUPM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wGvJoVuITqS2djPmbZ4qIeNE8f4bw65++sLuP71wEMeGF43WdovwZffwquXXBQcLmt OCJK0doEHU85gYlvP/NqUAjFM0ke2/6wli0MtV4rLrq+73rMvt8wDvctCI5LvyUlgmhX 69ul2C6QtFsoxTWkRKFY05Taiq2+rp3GGk7OY= Original-Received: by 10.115.116.12 with SMTP id t12mr11167638wam.214.1252128543561; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from bhishma.kuru (d154-5-171-216.bchsia.telus.net [154.5.171.216]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm982511pxi.5.2009.09.04.22.29.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:29:02 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67886 Archived-At: Hi Michael, On Friday 04 September 2009 04:37 AM, Michael Albinus wrote: > Suvayu Ali writes: > >> The host name for my localhost is limited to the local network. The >> Siemens router from my ISP (Telus) probably implements some kind of NAT >> (I'm not sure). So the outgoing connection worked, whereas the incoming >> connection failed. > > When you have connected to the remote host, call "who": > > slbpky:~> who > albinus tty7 2009-09-02 16:19 (:0) > albinus pts/0 2009-09-02 16:19 (localhost:10.0) > albinus pts/1 2009-09-04 08:29 (100.200.100.200) > albinus pts/2 2009-09-04 08:31 (localhost:12.0) > > The string "100.200.100.200" I have used instead of my real values ... > This is the IP address your router is visible in the net. You can try to > reach it from your remote host via "ping 100.200.100.200". > > If you have enabled NAT forwarding of port 22 in our router (Siemens > router shall allow this), you can even try "ssh user@100.200.100.200". > You shall reach your local host from the remote one. > >> I don't have a static IP, moreover from the outside I can only see my >> ISP's servers not my home machine. Hence I can't login from the outside. > > I hope you see at least your router as described above. > Unfortunately I can't ping my router from the remote machine and get a response. It seems my ISP is the culprit. Call to tech support didn't help either. :( I will try posting on my distro's user list. This has become way off-topic here. Wish me luck. And thanks to all those who replied to the thread. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.