Re: run ssh in emacs

[Michael Albinus]

Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:

> Michael, sorry to be so slow on the uptake. For my Emacs 24, ELPA tells
> me that ange-ftp is built in, and so I would not expect to see any
> ange-ftp.el file. I gather that if I use a tramp command to transfer a
> file by ftp, it is authomatically done with ange-ftp.

Yes.

> I presume that since I want to use ftp, I need to define the login in
> the .netrc. I have this line there:
>
>   machine uss-irex.info login ussir03 password "Geheim"
>
> I open an emacs session amd issue this command:
>
>   C-x C-f /ftp:issir03@uss-irex.info: 

I guess it is just a typo. In .netrc you write "ussir03", in the Emacs
file name you write "issir03".
>
> The messages buffer tells me:
>
>   Waiting for prompts from remote shell
>   ssh: connect to host ftp port 22: No route to host.

That shouldn't happen! Could you, please, start a new Emacs stanza with
"emacs -Q" and try then immediately

  C-x C-f /ftp:issir03@uss-irex.info:

> Haines  

Best regards, Michael.