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 18:53:35 +0200 Message-ID: <83hbb9tx80.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 1299862489 17889 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2011 16:54:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:54:49 +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 17:54:44 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 1Py5bw-0008PF-5m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:54:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41415 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Py5bv-0004Hv-PV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:54:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49555 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Py5aq-0003wI-P5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:53:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Py5ao-0001zy-Ko for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:53:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:43237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Py5ao-0001y8-Ci for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:53:34 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LHW00F00K3B1J00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:53:32 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.58.59]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LHW00FC5K972900@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:53:32 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:79984 Archived-At: > From: Richard Riley > 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.