tramp and windows network places

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When using tramp under XEmacs on Windows, there's a problem mixing this use with accessing network places.

 

A typical sessions runs as follows: load a tramp file, edit it, be happy.

 

Access a network-place file, \\place\\winfile.

 

Then try to load a tramp file /[plink1/...]/path/trampfile, *when in the winfile buffer*, via C-x C-f.

 

Tramp dutifully goes out but then says,

 

The directory containing /[plink1/...]//place/trampfile does not exist

 

-- it seems to take a piece of the path from the network place.

 

When switching to a local Windows file before tramping out, e.g. load ~/.emacs, subsequent loading of the same file via tramp works!

 

What's going on?

 

Cheers,

Alexy