It's been a while, but I'm trying again to get emacs and plink to behave. Before the security folks got seriously paranoid, I could run a graphical linux (Fedora) on my own machine and access all the servers I needed. Now I must access the servers only through my corporate (that is, hobbled) laptop.
I do have a WSL2 Ubuntu and Cygwin installation on the Windows laptop, but they don't seem to help, so the emacs I use is the Windows version. Here's what I got from the emacs command you gave me. Or I think it is -- Windows does not like the command line. Thanks! Fred backtrace() tramp-error(nil file-error "Timeout reached, see buffer ‘*tramp/plink username...") tramp-signal-hook-function(file-error ("Timeout reached, see buffer ‘*tramp/plink username...")) signal(file-error ("Timeout reached, see buffer ‘*tramp/plink username...")) tramp-maybe-open-connection((tramp-file-name "plink" "username" nil "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" nil "/u/username/dw_fload/competitive_titles/cse/progra..." nil)) tramp-send-command((tramp-file-name "plink" "username" nil "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" nil "/u/username/dw_fload/competitive_titles/cse/progra..." nil) "test 0 2>/dev/null; echo tramp_exit_status $?") tramp-send-command-and-check((tramp-file-name "plink" "username" nil "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" nil "/u/username/dw_fload/competitive_titles/cse/progra..." nil) "test 0") tramp-get-test-command((tramp-file-name "plink" "username" nil "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" nil "/u/username/dw_fload/competitive_titles/cse/progra..." nil)) tramp-run-test((tramp-file-name "plink" "username" nil "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" nil "/u/username/dw_fload/competitive_titles/cse/progra..." nil) "-d" "/u/username/dw_fload/competitive_titles/cse/progra...") tramp-sh-handle-file-directory-p("/plink:usern...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx :/u/username/dw_fload...") tramp-sh-file-name-handler(file-directory-p "/plink:usern...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/username/dw_fload...") apply(tramp-sh-file-name-handler file-directory-p "/plink:usern...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/username/dw_fload...") tramp-file-name-handler(file-directory-p "/plink:usern...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx :/u/username/dw_fload...") file-directory-p("/plink:usern...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx :/u/username/dw_fload...") find-file-noselect("/plink:usern...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/username/dw_fload..." nil nil t) find-file("/plink:usern...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/username/dw_fload..." t) funcall-interactively(find-file "/plink:usern...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/username/dw_fload..." t) repeat-complex-command(1) funcall-interactively(repeat-complex-command 1) command-execute(repeat-complex-command) On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 1:45 PM Michael Albinus <michael.albi...@gmx.de> wrote: > Frederick Bartlett <frederick.bartl...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Michael, > > Hi Fred, > > > I’m no longer able to access files on a remote Unix server using plink > > from Windows. It was working last week … and has been for a couple of > > years. > > > > The basic error was a timeout: > > > > tramp-error: Timeout reached, see buffer ‘*tramp/plink > > fbart...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx*’ for details > > > > I was unable to access the named buffer, but the backtrace follows. > > > > My sysop tells me that nothing’s changed on the server, fwiw. > > Please start Emacs like this: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > emacs -Q -l tramp --eval '(setq tramp-verbose 10)' > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Open your plink connection. When it has been timed out, there's a Tramp > debug buffer, please send it to us. > > > Thanks! > > Fred > > Best regards, Michael. >