Re: Using TRAMP on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:25:55 +0100
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Why?

Because a Windows user name will seldom match the name of the same
user on a Unix system.

> If the user name is omitted I think it's a sane assumption and ties in with 
> how
> ssh works for example.

It is sane assumption on Unix.  On Windows, it's just the only thing
PuTTY can do, but it will more often than not fail.