Re: Cannot connect to some hosts using tramp

[Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com>]

Diagnosis questions:

01. May you traceroute from box A to box B without Tramp or an ssh config
and user id X?
02. May you ssh from box A to box B without Tramp or an ssh config and user
id X?
03. May you ssh from box A to box B without Tramp but using a ssh
config and user id X?
04. May you ssh from box A to box B with Tramp but using a ssh config and
user id X?

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a number of unix hosts which I need to connect to which are all
> located within our company LAN.
>
> Some hosts I can connect to, others I can't for some reason.
>
> I am using emacs 23.3.1.
>
> I connect like this:
>
> m-x tramp to get started (without this I find it doesn't work for ANY
> host).
>
> c-x c-f //host:file
>
> Then prompted for a password.
>
> It works for a solaris box here but not a red hat linux host.
>
> Any ideas why this might not be working?  Any config I can do to help?
>