Re: Issues with multi-hop in TRAMP

[Michael Albinus]

Jordan Wilson <jordan.t.wilson@gmx.com> writes:

> Hi all,

Hi Jordan,

> I'm using Emacs 26.1 on Windows 10.
>
> I'm trying to get the following multi-hop to work in TRAMP:
>     /plink:username@machine|sshx:username@machine2:
>     
> (i.e. connect to a "machine" using plink and then from there connect to
>     "machine2" using sshx)
>
> The first time this is run it will first try to connect to "machine2"
> via sshx on my local machine. This causes Emacs to hang, and I have to
> kill the resulting "ssh" child process. The connection will then go
> through as expected. All future connections seem to work.
>
> Looking, it seems Windows 10 comes with a version of OpenSSH, and
> presumably some incompatibility between Emacs/TRAMP and that version of
> ssh is causing a hang. But I'm confused as to why "sshx" is being
> called on my local machine at all.

I have never tried OpenSSH on Windows, yet. But as you said, it
shouldn't be in play.

> Is my multi-hop line above correct?

Looks OK to me. Do you see the same when starting "emacs -Q"?

> Thanks,

Best regards, Michael.