starting emacs remote doesn't load .emacs

[Stefan Horomnea]

Hello,

I am running emacs21 on FreeBSD. If I start emacs directly from the 
machine, it loads and has effect the ~/.emacs file.
If i log on the machine remotly via ssh (from another machine via xterm) 
then the emacs doesn't find the same ~/.emacs file. So everything I 
write in my .emacs file on the remote machine is useless. Why it can't 
find it ? How can I debug this ?

Thanks,
Stefan