bug#50399: TRAMP can't connect to Win 2000 (smb, ftp, telnet)

[Michael Albinus]

Bad Blue Bull <ibmbull@yandex.ru> writes:

>> A workaround for Tramp might be the appended patch.

> I applied this patch, it still asks password for the first time, but
> no longer during the session (previously it asked passw for every
> share when I browsed with dired).

That's the expected behaviour. smbclient, connecting to a remote
machine, will always ask for a password, whether needed or not. Tramp
simply shows it to you, and it remembers to use this empty password for
next smbclient requests.

Best regards, Michael.