Enter your bug report in this message, including as much detail as you possibly can about the problem, what you did to cause it and what the local and remote machines are. If you can give a simple set of instructions to make this bug happen reliably, please include those. Thank you for helping kill bugs in TRAMP. --bug report follows this line-- I can't get tramp to work at ALL. It appears to do with its temporary files (tramp.X) and I get this message: Opening input file: no such file or directory, /r@sm:root@localhost:/root/tramp.18337fnZ I have tried multiple methods... su, sudo, ssh, (with mine and uuencode) etc. Still can't get it to work :( Emacs : GNU Emacs 20.5.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Mon Feb 21 2000 on porky.devel.redhat.com Package: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.431 2000/11/01 12:35:08 grossjoh Exp $) current state: ============== (setq tramp-ls-command nil tramp-test-groks-nt nil tramp-file-exists-command nil tramp-current-method nil tramp-current-user nil tramp-current-host nil tramp-auto-save-directory nil tramp-default-method "rcp" tramp-rsh-end-of-line "\n" tramp-remote-path '("/bin" "/usr/bin" "/usr/sbin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/ccs/bin" "/local/bin" "/local/freeware/bin" "/local/gnu/bin" "/usr/freeware/bin" "/usr/pkg/bin") tramp-login-prompt-regexp ".*ogin: *$" tramp-password-prompt-regexp "^.*\\([pP]assword\\|passphrase.*\\): ? *$" tramp-wrong-passwd-regexp "^.*\\(Permission denied.\\|Login [Ii]ncorrect\\|Received signal [0-9]+\\|Connection \\(refused\\|closed\\)\\|Sorry, try again.\\|Name or service not known\\).*$" tramp-temp-name-prefix "tramp." tramp-file-name-structure '("\\`/r\\(@\\([a-z0-9]+\\)\\)?:\\(\\([-a-z0-9_#]+\\)@\\)?\\([-a-z0-9.]+\\):\\(.*\\)\\'" 2 4 5 6) tramp-file-name-regexp "\\`/r[@:]" tramp-make-tramp-file-format "/r@%m:%u@%h:%p" tramp-end-of-output "/////" shell-prompt-pattern "^[^#$%>\n]*[#$%>] *" backup-by-copying nil backup-by-copying-when-linked nil backup-by-copying-when-mismatch nil )