Re: Any way to use tramp under Windows XP?

[Harry Putnam]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> "Theo R." <shortsightedsid@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Oct 28, 1:26 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
>>> Am 27.10.2009 um 18:18 schrieb Lennart Borgman:
>>>
>>> >> Is it possible to use tramp under WindowsXP?
>>>
>>> > It should be.
>>>
>>> It definitely does. All you need is PuTTY. Configured.
>>
>> I'm using tramp to access my linux box from WinXP all the time. It
>> doesn't need PuTTY but uses windows FTP.
>
> That would be ange-ftp rather than tramp which you are using.  Tramp
> goes through a shell account, not ftp.

Yeah and I can tell you from experience that the best way is to use
`plink'. Its one of the `putty' set of tools.

Google up the `putty download page'  and get putty, plink, pscp,
psftp'

All will be useful at some point.  In emacs, to use plink it very
similar to ange ftp
 
  /method:user@host:/path/file

  C-x C-f /plink:myuser@host:/some/directory/file
  (Where myuser is the user on `host', you will login as) 

Plink as method works from vista too, where ssh as method never seems
to (for me).

Also the putty terminal.. if you want to ssh to windows, is quite a bit
nicer than the one with cygwin.

The one big calling card for a cygwin terminal (for me) is that it
speaks smb.. if you have shares setup on the network hosts.

cygwin terminal can do things like:  `cd //host/share'

I'm told you can get smb (as method) to work in tramp too but I
haven't been able too. But since I had an array of other methods.. I
didn't try all that hard.