From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using TRAMP on Windows Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:49:35 +0200 Message-ID: <83k4g5u06o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831v2euf1y.fsf@gnu.org> <83sjutubzg.fsf@gnu.org> <878vwl4y8d.wl%lists@groll.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299858643 26133 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2011 15:50:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:50:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 16:50:36 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Py4bn-00070J-QC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:50:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57171 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Py4bX-0005Kx-7G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:50:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44470 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Py4av-0005KB-Ok for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:49:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Py4au-0007R1-Fx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:49:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:56664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Py4au-0007Px-3x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:49:36 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LHW00E00H3PKU00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:49:34 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.58.59]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LHW00D3XHAJ9OG0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:49:32 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <878vwl4y8d.wl%lists@groll.co.za> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:79982 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:50:58 +0200 > From: Jonathan Groll > > > But TRAMP prompts me for the username when I omit it. I enter the > > username and then the password but authentication fails. > > It doesn't prompt me for the username. Perhaps because you defined a fixed user name to use in the PuTTY session for that server. In that case, plink and pscp take the user name from there. > 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.