It turns out that, indeed, my broken emacs was part of the problem. Much better luck on the new disk.
I should interject that before, when I specified the file server account as "ftp.hartford-hwp.com," that it was not a syntax error on my part, but actually the address of my account on the server, which includes prepends "ftp" as the beginning of its address. I should recall that in ~/.emacs I have the lines: (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tramp/") (require 'tramp) (setq tramp-default-method "ssh") The good news. When I do on the new disk: C-x C-f /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/html I get in, and things function properly. However, I see no evidence I'm using ssh. In the emacs buffer: "*ftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get roughly the following: ftp> open ftp.hartford-hwp.com ... 230 restricted user logged in hash ftp> [etc. Results of my commands ls and cd] Should I see evidence here of ssh? Or is ssh usage implicit? I found that if I use C-x C-f /ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/html I also get in OK, even though I've truncated the account name. Could it be that my specification of the ftp mode was parsed by the server? When I tried: C-x C-f /ssh:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/html It can't establish authenticity for host "ftp.hartford-hwp.com" and I get the "File not found and directory write protected" error. Same thing when I use: C-x C-f /ssh:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/html although one time it did get me into the server root directory, but no "html" directory on it for me to go to. So, while tramp is working for me, I'm uncertain that when I specify no mode in the address, it is actually using the line in ~/.emacs to default to ssh. Haines Brown _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
