tramp from windowxp to linux

[reader]

I tried posting a similar query a couple of weeks ago but near as I
can tell, it never received a reply.  And since tramp is part of emacs
now it seems it should fit in here unless I need the emacs on windows
list. 

It does seem to be windows related but maybe somehere can help.

Attempting /reader@reader:/home/reader  Seems to fail silently after
the first try but on that first try I got this in the tramp debug
buffer:
,-- 
|    ssh reader -l reader  -e none && exit || exit
| Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
`--

What does this mean?  And why does it only happen once? Further tries
just hang silently.

This is happening with:
GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-08-18 on TPAD

tramp-2.1.11-pre

on a laptop running windows XP home, trying to connect over a home lan
to a linux box running gentoo linux.
ssh either direction works