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

[Michael Albinus]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

Hi,

>>> 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.

I've fixed this problem (I hope) in auth-source.el of Emacs git, commit
788a65862ed9b9bc0437a016cae7e3ba1282a1a7. I've pushed also my workaround
in tramp.el, because Tramp cooperates also with older Emacsen.

Could you give it a try?

Best regards, Michael.