Connect to davs with emacs

Question

I'm trying to access a remote davs server with emacs through tramp. I use the syntax

/davs:[email protected]: TAB

With ftp, this would ask for a password, connect to the server and open a completion list. But with davs Emacs gives the error Package tramp-gvfs' not supported`. Checking the messages buffer the error is linked to "completion--some" so I'm not sure it has to do with tramp itself. In the messages buffer I also see

Opening connection for davs using scpc... \
Tramp: Opening connection for davs using scpc...done
byte-code: Process died

I tried to specify the port number by adding #2078 after servername.fr but it didn't make any difference.

The connection works fine with my file managers (Nautilus and Thunar) so I suppose gvfs is set up properly on my system. Where else should I look?

Answer 1

You get this error message if Emacs is not compiled with DBus support, if it cannot connect to the session bus, or if neither gvfs-fuse-daemon nor gvfsd-fuse is running. (See the definition of tramp-gvfs-enabled.)

I seem to remember that I had to start gvfs-fuse-daemon manually, but I'm not sure exactly what I did to get it work; this was a long time ago on a different computer... Hopefully someone else can come up with a more complete answer.