Re: Tramp on Windows XP

[Kai Großjohann]

Please try PuTTY (or the plink tool that comes with it).  There is a
Tramp method "plink", so you only need to add the PuTTY directory to
%PATH% and then C-x C-f /plink:address@hidden:/some/file RET.

I hope.

The problem is that Windows does not have pseudo ttys.  So Emacs does
not use them for subprocesses.  And when ssh sees that a pseudo tty is
not used, then it won't allocate one on the remote end.  And this
causes the remote end to think it is talking to a program, and to omit
printing the shell prompt.  But the shell prompt is very important for
Tramp's operation.

Doing "ssh -t -t" (yes, twice), it is sometimes possible to force ssh
to allocate a pseudo tty on the remote end, but apparently this does
not work reliably on Windows.

Kai


Joel Gwynn <address@hidden> writes:

> Hmm.  eshell certainly does hang.  All I get is this message:
> Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
>
> What's that all about?
>
> On 6/11/05, John L. Utz III <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I cant answer why emacs doesnt do the right thing in this case, and i am
>> surprised that you didnt get the imfamous 'terminal is not a TTY' ( google 
>> for
>> it :-( )
>> 
>> however, the good news is that tramp works swimmingly with the plink from
>> puTTY:
>> 
>> C-x C-f
>> /plink://address@hidden:cvs-co/development/centeris/path/to/file/etc...
>> 
>> i am going from an XPProSp2 box to various linuxen.
>> 
>> if you are trying to go to another XP box or from unixy-thang to XP (reverse
>> of my use case) then i have no idea if that will work.
>> 
>> another intermediate testing step would be to try and run your ssh session in
>> eshell (Esc-x eshell) and see if it works or hangs....bet it hangs...
>> 
>> At Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:19:57 -0400,
>> Joel Gwynn wrote:
>> >
>> > Well, it seems like many people have this problem, but I haven't found
>> > a solution to my incarnation.
>> >
>> > I'm running emacs 21.3.1 on Windows XP with Tramp 2.1.3, and cygwin,
>> > not sure which version.  The relevant lines in my .emacs file are as
>> > follows:
>> >
>> > (add-to-list 'load-path "/emacs-21.3/tramp/lisp/")
>> > ;; for Emacs
>> > (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "c:/emacs-21.3/tramp/info/")
>> > ;; for XEmacs
>> > ;; (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "~/emacs/tramp/info/")
>> > (require 'tramp)
>> >
>> > (setq tramp-debug-buffer t)
>> >
>> > (nconc (cadr (assq 'tramp-login-args (assoc "ssh" tramp-methods)))
>> >        '(("bash" "-i")))
>> > (setcdr (assq 'tramp-remote-sh (assoc "ssh" tramp-methods))
>> >       '("bash -i"))
>> >
>> > When I try to connect like so:
>> > Ctrl-x Ctrl-f /address@hidden:/mypath
>> >
>> > I get the message:
>> > Tramp: Waiting 60s for prompt on remote shell
>> >
>> > In my *tramp/ssh buffer, there is this command line:
>> > ssh myhost.com -l myname  -e none bash -i || exit
>> >
>> > In my *debug tramp/ssh buffer, I get this:
>> > Sending command `ssh myhost.com -l myname -e none bash -i || exit'
>> > # Waiting for prompts from remote shell
>> > # Waiting 60s for prompt from remote shell on host qtik.com
>> >
>> > If I paste that line into a dos prompt, I get a password prompt, which
>> > when I enter my password, I get logged in.
>> >
>> > I can do this.  Why can't emacs?
>> >
>> > TIA
>> > Joel
>> >
>> >
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