Re: Tramp and NT-Emacs with plink

[Jonathan Epstein]

I am extremely grateful for the efforts that Douglas Stephens and Kai (and 
others) have put into this.  After months of beating my head against this, I am 
now finally able to get remote access from my W2K Emacs 20.6.1+Tramp 2.0.17 to 
several (secured) remote Linux systems, without having to store my password 
locally in any way.  Here's the only TRAMP-specific code in my _emacs :

(require 'tramp)
(require 'telnet)
(setq tramp-password-end-of-line "\r\n")
(setq tramp-default-method "plink")
(setq tramp-verbose 10)
(setq tramp-debug-buffer t)
(setq tramp-auto-save-directory "c:/temp")

It's possible that I could even remove some of this.

Anyhow, while access to the two Linux systems works great, I am currently 
unable to access a remote Solaris system which is a bit old, and is running a 
version of Perl that's a bit old:

trypsin% uname -a
SunOS trypsin 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
trypsin% perl -v

This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris


 I see the following at the end of the *Messages* buffer:

tramp: Checking to see if encoding/decoding commands work on remote host...
Remote host cannot execute de/encoding commands.  See buffer `*tramp/plink 
address@hidden' for details


  But that buffer is quite uninformative, and only contains the line:

Process *tramp/plink address@hidden interrupt

  Here's the end of the debug buffer:

# Checking remote decoding command `tramp_decode' for sanity
$ ( echo xyzzy | tramp_encode | tramp_decode >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; echo 
tramp_exit_status $? )
tramp_exit_status 0
# Using remote encoding tramp_encode
# Using remote decoding tramp_decode
# Using local encoding base64-encode-region
# Using local decoding base64-decode-region
# Checking to see if encoding/decoding commands work on remote host...
$ echo xyzzy | tramp_encode | tramp_decode


So it looks as though it hangs on the encoding and/or decoding.  Is this a 
known problem with older versions of Perl?  It wouldn't be a big deal to 
upgrade Perl on that system if this is the consensus.

Thanks,

Jonathan



At 12:30 PM 9/12/2002 +0200, Kai wrote:
>Douglas Gray Stephens <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I have downloaded 2.0.16 from the CVS archive on 
>>  address@hidden:/cvsroot/tramp 
>> and tried it out, and I only need set 
>>  (setq tramp-password-end-of-line "\r\n") 
>> and otherwise the code works without modification.
>
>That's good news!
>
>> I have noticed that
>>  1.  I cannot use
>>        /hostname:file
>>      as it does not get the password prompt, while
>>        /address@hidden:file
>>      works.
>
>Hm.  Can you (setq tramp-debug-buffer t) and show me a debug buffer
>for the former case, and a debug buffer for the latter case, to
>compare?  (Buffer *debug tramp/foo*.)
>
>>  2.  The code is always uploading the perl code for encoding/decoding,
>>      while before I could use the existing binary mimencode on the
>>      remote host.
>
>I did this because I'm lazy.  I recently added a change so that this
>code is only uploaded for inline methods (not for out-of-band
>methods), but at the time the code is uploaded Tramp does not know
>yet whether it will use it.
>
>I hope I will get around to improving this someday.
>
>kai
>-- 
>~/.signature is: umop 3p!sdn    (Frank Nobis)
>
>
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