Re: tramp from windowxp to linux

[Michael Albinus]

reader@newsguy.com writes:

> 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.
> `--

This is explained in the Tramp manual. The cygwin openssh does not
cooperate with Emacs processes.

I recommend to use plink from PuTTY.

Best regards, Michael.