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With Emacs running on Windows (without cygwin) I am able to open a remote (windows share) directory with C-x C-f //IPADDRESS/d$ RET command. With Emacs on cygwin, I tried /smb:IPADDRESS:/d$$ RET. However, I got the below error message,

Host 'IPADDRESS' looks like a remote host, 'smb' can only use the local host.

The earlier //IPADDRESS/DIR syntax too didn't work.

Can anyone please help (I also tried using my username in the smb URL but got the same error)?

EDIT: I found out from the post https://superuser.com/questions/102233/how-to-go-to-remote-directory-in-cygwin that cygwin treats UNC paths as local. More information is at https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#unc-paths. So the solution is to do C-x C-f //machine/shareddir RET to browse the remote directory assuming you don't have to provide different credentials.

Amit Tendulkar
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Tramp's smb method is not activated for cygwin. See tramp-smb.el:

(unless (memq system-type '(cygwin windows-nt))
  (add-to-list 'tramp-methods
    `(,tramp-smb-method
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Michael Albinus
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  • Thanks. Why this is not be supported? Also is there any other way I can access remote files from Emacs on cygwin if Tramp smb is restricted? – Amit Tendulkar Dec 22 '18 at 10:45
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    Well, it is 15+ years old code, I don't remember. If you have the `smbclient` available in cygwin, edit the code snippet to not kick off cygwin, and try it. If it works for you, pls report, and I'll change it in Tramp. – Michael Albinus Dec 22 '18 at 20:13
  • Thanks for the response. Looks like cygwin doesn't provide a smbclient. I stumbled upon a post where the person has compiled smbclient for windows at http://allandynes.com/2016/05/samba-client-for-windows-smbclient-exe-v3-6-25/. Interested users can try it out and post the outcome here. Meanwhile, I am editing my question to include the answer I got from another Q&A. – Amit Tendulkar Dec 23 '18 at 06:09