From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hilary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Remote access from Windoze Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:04:24 +0000 Organization: Often seems an abstract concept Message-ID: Reply-To: hils@newearth.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359019133 8559 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2013 09:18:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:18:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 24 10:19:12 2013 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 1TyIxk-0007oT-Iq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:19:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37771 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TyIkd-0007oY-53 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:05:39 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lP0Q8+sSjrtysXzEjanLGw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120604 Thunderbird/13.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196496 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:88790 Archived-At: When I try find-file /me@a.b.c.d:/ from emacs on a WinXP box (with PuTTY properly installed), it prompts Password for /pscp:me@a.b.c.d: after entering the password and a long pause, I get Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell and nothing more. It's freed by C-g, when it asks for a password again. When I try the exact same find-file command from emacs on Debian in VirtualBox on the same Winny box, it works perfectly. Winny emacs never gets to the Tramp: Found remote shell prompt on `a.b.c.d' message which Debian emacs has. Have I missed something about emacs and/or plink? -- Hilary