Re: Any way to use tramp under Windows XP?

[Will Willis <will.willis@gmail.com>]

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You can have your cake and eat it too: cygwin + putty

http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/

and to top off the windows experience, take a look at XKeymacs for all the
other applications you use, http://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/indexen.html

-Will

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > "Theo R." <shortsightedsid@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Oct 28, 1:26 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> >>> Am 27.10.2009 um 18:18 schrieb Lennart Borgman:
> >>>
> >>> >> Is it possible to use tramp under WindowsXP?
> >>>
> >>> > It should be.
> >>>
> >>> It definitely does. All you need is PuTTY. Configured.
> >>
> >> I'm using tramp to access my linux box from WinXP all the time. It
> >> doesn't need PuTTY but uses windows FTP.
> >
> > That would be ange-ftp rather than tramp which you are using.  Tramp
> > goes through a shell account, not ftp.
>
> Yeah and I can tell you from experience that the best way is to use
> `plink'. Its one of the `putty' set of tools.
>
> Google up the `putty download page'  and get putty, plink, pscp,
> psftp'
>
> All will be useful at some point.  In emacs, to use plink it very
> similar to ange ftp
>
>  /method:user@host:/path/file
>
>  C-x C-f /plink:myuser@host:/some/directory/file
>  (Where myuser is the user on `host', you will login as)
>
> Plink as method works from vista too, where ssh as method never seems
> to (for me).
>
> Also the putty terminal.. if you want to ssh to windows, is quite a bit
> nicer than the one with cygwin.
>
> The one big calling card for a cygwin terminal (for me) is that it
> speaks smb.. if you have shares setup on the network hosts.
>
> cygwin terminal can do things like:  `cd //host/share'
>
> I'm told you can get smb (as method) to work in tramp too but I
> haven't been able too. But since I had an array of other methods.. I
> didn't try all that hard.
>
>
>
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