Re: Specifying remote drive letter

[Michael Albinus]

Dan Christian <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Dan,

> I'm trying to access a DOS like remote system from a Linux system. I
> need to access a non-default drive letter, but the CWD command doesn't
> seem to understand drive letters.
>
> Here is what I'm typing:
> /ftp://address@hidden/m:/
>
> The FTP session shows:
> ...
> ftp> pwd
> 257 "c:\" is current directory.
> ftp> passive
> Passive mode on.
> ftp> cd /m\:/
>
> *** which fails. Need: cd m:/
>
> angeftp is setup to use passive mode, but is otherwise stock.
>
> Is there a way to get TRAMP (or maybe angeftp) to grok drive letters?

I've never seen that. I would try to use UNC paths if the remote host
allows this. Or you take Tramp's smb method, which looks much more promising.

> Thanks,
> -Dan

Best regards, Michael.