I'm trying to get tramp working under emacs 24.3 (tramp version 2.2.6-24.3) on windows 7 and I'm almost there. I've got putty/plink installed and in the path. Here's what's in my .emacs:
;;; TRAMP for remote editing ;;;
(require 'tramp)
(setq tramp-default-method "plink"
tramp-default-user "dbraze"
tramp-default-host "camille.haskins.edu"
)
when I do M-x find-file /plink:: I'm prompted for a password. When I type it in all seems well, but eventually the connection fails. This is what I end up with in my Messages buffer:
Tramp: Opening connection for [email protected] using plink...
Tramp: Sending command `plink -l dbraze -ssh camille.haskins.edu && exit || exit'
Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell...
Tramp: Sending Password
Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell...done
Tramp: Found remote shell prompt on `camille.haskins.edu'
Tramp: Opening connection for [email protected] using plink...failed
completion--some: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
When I check, I see that plink continues to run. If I repeat the same find-file command, I get:
cond: Couldn't find a proper `ls' command
(The remote machine is running a fairly recent version of the opensuse linux distro. GNU ls is there and works fine if I ssh in directly.) If I kill plink, I can go through the same steps to the same end. Any thoughts on what's wrong or how best to troubleshoot? thanks in advance.