Re: Using TRAMP on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:50:58 +0200
> From: Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za>
> 
> > But TRAMP prompts me for the username when I omit it. I enter the
> > username and then the password but authentication fails.
> 
> It doesn't prompt me for the username.

Perhaps because you defined a fixed user name to use in the PuTTY
session for that server.  In that case, plink and pscp take the user
name from there.

> 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.