From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cannot connect to some hosts using tramp Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:03:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87ppkhprxw.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87tx9ud65a.fsf@gmx.de> <87fvle1ozg.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397639028 2863 80.91.229.3 (16 Apr 2014 09:03:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Help To: Angus Comber Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 16 11:03:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WaLkm-0002lt-0x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:03:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53525 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaLkl-0006x4-LP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 05:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33621) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaLkT-0006wM-Sl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 05:03:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaLkM-0005tg-Df for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 05:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:54115) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaLkM-0005tI-4q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 05:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([93.202.48.111]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MIzGn-1WYQrt3vLd-002WkV; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:03:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Angus Comber's message of "Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:49:23 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:EOeQJyEyXPrDFU4WuSl8lRN8Wjz5WlGWetXNZ3H30cj4w8g8DjO YDq0ULexQGcEHUwP8/IBUPtY4ckc2HT5t5BsdykwQcekxIwmmY0d9aD9eVsMh5Y5j4ZSbET XnDEmpNClzcO7WhQS+9LU2xZ68LjpBG9dAIq/boKf4Roxyt8+GJXWRzPQMc9qJOZfsQtnJu okArtOPPDLVOBcMglOgxA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.20 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97150 Archived-At: Angus Comber writes: Hi Angus, > I would really like to get this to work. Me too :-) > I am wondering if I need to set a default username in putty? I have > seen notes on Pageant??? Maybe I need to configure or do something > with that. Not needed. All information could be in the file name. > I am also on a fairly old version of emacs, 23.3.1, so I can try the > latest version. I did try that too, and for some reason it looked like > default was to use FTP because I always so a message indicating FTP > was being used. That's strange, yes. But if you set the method in the file name, it shouldn't matter what's the default. > And I am running Windows which probably doesn't help either, Windows > 7. Can't do anything about that though. Well, personally I don't use MS Windows. But there are people using Tramp on this, so it shall be possible :-) > Any suggestions as good places to start would be greatly appreciated. First try to use a full remote path name, as proposed already. Since you are using PuTTY, the path name might be "/plink:acomber@uk-rhel53qa32:myextract.txt" What happens, if you open a file like this (without the double quotes, of course)? > Angus Best regards, Michael.