Take note of the cygwin-related information on the emacs wiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode I don’t use EmacsW32, but I do successfully use TRAMP over ssh with Cygwin and NT Emacs. I never got TRAMP working without an ssh agent (i.e. prompting for credentials) — as you noticed, it just hangs — but it works fine with one, … Read more
If the account you’re connecting to uses some weird fancy shell prompt, then there is a good chance that this is what makes tramp trip. Log in as root, then enter PS1=”> ” (that’s a normal, standard shell (ZSH, BASH, younameit) prompt, one that tramp will understand) then switch to the user account, and launch … Read more
As of Emacs 24.3, an analog of the old multi: syntax has been layered on top of the modern tramp-default-proxies-alist approach, meaning that you can once again perform multi-hops without any prior configuration. For details, see: C-hig (tramp)Ad-hoc multi-hops RET With the new syntax, each ‘hop’ is separated by |. The example in the manual … Read more