how to troubleshoot tramp on windows

[Paul Gatewood]

I am trying to get tramp to work on windows xp, connecting to GNU/Linux
I have looked at a lot of suggestions on the web, and have tried 
following the steps in
    http://www.jeremyenglish.org/docs/tramp_ntmacs.pdf
but still can not get it to work.

I am using cygwin and putty.
I have generated the keys, installed the public key on the server,
set up the client, and configured emacs as described in the pdf cited.

I have set tramp-verbose to 10, and tramp-debug-buffer to t.

When I try to open a file, e.g. using the syntax:
    /address@hidden:.profile
I get the following output in the buffer
    *debug tramp/plink address@hidden (sorry the output is wrapped):

    1File error: [[Regexp `^///92fb9be1e1d8535b966a60c6d8167761
?$' not found in 10 secs]]

(complete output below)

The normal login shell for this user is ksh.

Having found many references to problems involving the shell prompt, I 
tried setting the emacs shell prompt variables to the fixed string used 
as PS1 when I execute /bin/sh interactively ("sh-3.00$ ").

Those values (output from describe-variable) are as follows:
shell-prompt-pattern's value is "sh-3\\.00\\$ "
tramp-shell-prompt-pattern's value is "sh-3\\.00\\$ "

Does anyone know how I can go about finding just what the problem is, 
and what to do about it?

-Paul




Below is everything generated to the tramp debug buffer after trying to 
open the remote file.


11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # home-directory undef
11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-name nil
11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # last-cmd-time (17985 57341 
550000)
11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-name nil
11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # remote-echo nil
11:01:52 tramp-send-command (6) # echo are you awake
11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-name nil
11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # chunksize nil
11:01:52 tramp-set-connection-property (7) # last-cmd-time (17985 57952 
620000)
11:01:52 tramp-send-string (10) # echo are you awake
11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-buffer nil
11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:52 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/plink address@hidden run
11:01:52 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
are you awake
$ $
11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:52 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/plink address@hidden run
11:01:53 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
are you awake
$ $
11:01:53 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:53 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:53 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/plink address@hidden run
11:01:54 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
are you awake
$ $
11:01:54 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:54 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:54 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/plink address@hidden run
11:01:55 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
are you awake
$ $
11:01:55 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:55 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:55 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/plink address@hidden run
11:01:56 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
are you awake
$ $
11:01:56 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:56 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:56 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/plink address@hidden run
11:01:57 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
are you awake
$ $
11:01:57 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:57 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:57 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/plink address@hidden run
11:01:58 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
are you awake
$ $
11:01:58 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:58 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:58 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/plink address@hidden run
11:01:59 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
are you awake
$ $
11:01:59 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:59 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:01:59 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/plink address@hidden run
11:02:00 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
are you awake
$ $
11:02:00 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:02:00 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:02:00 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/plink address@hidden run
11:02:01 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
are you awake
$ $
11:02:01 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:02:01 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
11:02:01 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/plink address@hidden run
11:02:02 tramp-wait-for-regexp (6) #
are you awake
$ $
11:02:02 tramp-wait-for-regexp (1) # File error: [[Regexp 
`^///92fb9be1e1d8535b966a60c6d8167761
?$' not found in 10 secs]]