bug#65812: closed (29.1; Emacs client on Windows can't connect to the daemon on WSL over TCP)

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the daemon on WSL over TCP
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #65812,
regarding 29.1; Emacs client on Windows can't connect to the daemon on WSL over 
TCP
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> 29.1; Emacs client on Windows can't connect to the daemon on WSL over TCP
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> Thu, 7 Sep 2023 15:10:59 -0400
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> Hello,
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> I'm trying to connect Emacs client running on Windows over TCP to the Emacs
> server running inside WSL.
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> # Inside WSL shell:
> (cat <<EOF
> (setq server-host "WSL_IP_ADDRESS_HERE")
> (setq server-port 12345)
> (setq server-use-tcp t)
> (server-start)
> EOF
> ) > server-config.el
> emacs -Q -l server-config.el --daemon
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> # On Windows
> # Map network drive \\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu as, e.g. W:
> # Then in PowerShell:
> $env:EMACS_SERVER_FILE=W:\home\user\.emacs.d\server\server
> & 'C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs-29.1\bin\emacsclientw.exe' -c -n
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> Client will first display message window saying that it connected to the
> remote socket, and after clicking [OK] button, error message appears
> saying "*ERROR*: Could not open file: CONOUT$".
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> In GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2023-08-02 built on
>  AVALON
> Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.22621
> System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro for Workstations 
> (v10.0.2009.22621.2215)
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> Configured using:
>  'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation=aot
>  --without-compress-install --with-tree-sitter CFLAGS=-O2'
>
> Configured features:
> ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP
> NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
> TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XPM ZLIB
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> (NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available)
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: ENU
>   locale-coding-system: cp65001
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> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
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> Minor modes in effect:
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   global-eldoc-mode: t
>   eldoc-mode: t
>   show-paren-mode: t
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   indent-tabs-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
>
> Features:
> (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired
> dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068
> epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date subr-x mm-decode
> mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader
> cl-loaddefs cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
> mail-prsvr mail-utils rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric
> uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel dos-w32
> ls-lisp disp-table term/w32-win w32-win w32-vars term/common-win
> tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace
> newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar
> rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock
> font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq
> simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang
> misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms
> cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
> cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table
> epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button
> loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window
> text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
> custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads
> w32notify w32 lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process native-compile emacs)
>
> Memory information:
> ((conses 16 49664 11502)
>  (symbols 48 5188 0)
>  (strings 32 15157 1304)
>  (string-bytes 1 415581)
>  (vectors 16 10077)
>  (vector-slots 8 254971 15480)
>  (floats 8 25 37)
>  (intervals 56 302 0)
>  (buffers 984 11))
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> Re: bug#65812: 29.1; Emacs client on Windows can't connect to the daemon on WSL over TCP
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> Date: 
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> Fri, 15 Sep 2023 10:04:09 +0300
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> > Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:50:53 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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> > > Cc: 65812@debbugs.gnu.org
> > > Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:18:45 +0300
> > > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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> > > > Cc: 65812@debbugs.gnu.org
> > > > Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 10:24:25 +0300
> > > > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > > > 
> > > > Please try the patch below and tell if it solves your problem.
> > > 
> > > Sorry, there was an error in that patch (this is what I get for
> > > sending patches in a hurry).  Please try the one below instead.
> > 
> > The OP used an email address that cannot be replied to.  Could someone
> > here who uses WSL (or some other setup where emacsclient on Windows
> > talks to the server on Unix) please try this patch with the recipe in
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> >   https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=65812#5
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> > and report back?
> > 
> > If no one can test this within a week or so, I'm going to install this
> > on the emacs-29 branch regardless.  TIA.
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> No one responded, so I've now installed this on the emacs-29 branch,
> and I'm closing the bug.
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