Re: Using TRAMP on Windows

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, tramp-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:36:03 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> If the username is ommitted, it makes the assumption that the
>> >> username is the same as the windows domain user.
>> >
>> > Which is usually a bad assumption.
>> 
>> It depends.
>> 
>> However, it is configurable in `tramp-default-user-alist'. I'm not using
>> MS Windows myself; if you tell me we should drop this default for plink
>> and pscp, it could be done easily.
>
> I don't see a reason to drop it, as that is what plink does outside
> Emacs, too.

If plink does that by itself already, one would not need to assume it on
Emacs' side, would one?

-- 
David Kastrup