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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using TRAMP on Windows
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:53:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83hbb9tx80.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ildigg$dd5$1@quimby.gnus.org>

> From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:25:55 +0100
> 
> >> If the username is ommitted, it makes the assumption that the
> >> username is the same as the windows domain user.
> >
> > Which is usually a bad assumption.
> 
> Why?

Because a Windows user name will seldom match the name of the same
user on a Unix system.

> If the user name is omitted I think it's a sane assumption and ties in with how
> ssh works for example.

It is sane assumption on Unix.  On Windows, it's just the only thing
PuTTY can do, but it will more often than not fail.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-11 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-11 10:00 Using TRAMP on Windows Deniz Dogan
2011-03-11 10:09 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-03-11 17:59   ` Michael Albinus
2011-03-11 19:08     ` Deniz Dogan
2011-03-11 19:24       ` Michael Albinus
2011-03-11 19:39         ` Deniz Dogan
2011-03-11 19:46           ` Michael Albinus
     [not found]           ` <mailman.15.1299872788.6879.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-11 20:46             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-11 10:25 ` Jonathan Groll
2011-03-11 10:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-11 10:35   ` Deniz Dogan
2011-03-11 11:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-11 11:58       ` Deniz Dogan
2011-03-11 12:27         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-11 19:28           ` Michael Albinus
2011-03-11 12:50         ` Jonathan Groll
2011-03-11 15:49           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-11 19:36             ` Michael Albinus
2011-03-11 19:46               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <mailman.16.1299872811.6879.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-11 19:52                 ` David Kastrup
2011-03-11 20:56                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-11 21:06                     ` Michael Albinus
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.23.1299877010.6879.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-11 21:07                     ` David Kastrup
     [not found]           ` <mailman.5.1299858579.20707.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-11 16:25             ` Richard Riley
2011-03-11 16:53               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-03-11 19:40               ` Michael Albinus
2011-03-11 20:08                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-11 19:29           ` Michael Albinus
     [not found]       ` <mailman.5.1299844760.14178.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-11 12:52         ` William Stevenson
2011-03-12  9:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-11 19:20       ` Michael Albinus

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