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I am trying to mount directories from my work machine on my laptop via sshfs. The command I'm running is

sshfs -d -o allow_other -o reconnect -o ServerAliveInterval=15 server:~/Documents ~/Documents/home

The corresponding entry in ~/.ssh/config is 

Host server
    User myname
    Port 22
    ProxyCommand ssh -q -W machineName.serverAdress.com:%p WorkNetworkName

Now everytime I run the command I just get

FUSE library version: 2.9.4
nullpath_ok: 0
nopath: 0
utime_omit_ok: 0

and then nothing. I can't even kill the process or unmount since in all other terminals I can enter a command but it won't run. The only thing I can do then is put the laptop to sleep and wake it up again. When I then run ls in ~/Documents on my laptop I get:

d????????? ? ?      ?         ?            ? home

And fish throws the following error message on every letter I type:

fish: Error while searching for command “/home/username/Documents/home/bin/python_lib/ls”
access: Transport endpoint is not connected

where ~/bin/python_lib is a directory I keep my python scripts on my work machine, so this is part of my PYTHONPATH on my work machine.

Can anyone see what I did wrong?

Cheers

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  • I think this server:~/Documents can't work. Better try server:Documents
    – rudimeier
    May 12, 2017 at 11:45
  • @rudimeier It works: the local shell doesn't expand the tilde because it isn't after an equal sign, and the remote shell expands the tilde.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    May 13, 2017 at 21:33
  • SSHFS has no problem with home as a directory name. I suspect that either something in your desktop environment is watching for mount points, or you have a search path that includes this volume. What desktop environment are you running? What is the output of export | grep Documents ?
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    May 13, 2017 at 21:36
  • @Gilles are you sure there is a remote shell involved at all? For me ~ is not expanded on the remote server:~: No such file or directory
    – rudimeier
    May 14, 2017 at 11:07
  • It works with ~ for me.
    – FloodLuszt
    May 14, 2017 at 20:00

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Okay the problem was that the actual name of mountPoint was home and somehow that was too much for sshfs. If anyone knows why it's not a good idea to call the mount point home I'd be happy to learn something here.

Cheers

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  • SSHFS FAQ Is a question 23 your case?
    – Kalavan
    May 12, 2017 at 14:38
  • Not really question 23 is about using ~ in the remote path but that was not my problem. My problem was only fixed once I changed the local name of the mount point from home to homeDir.
    – FloodLuszt
    May 12, 2017 at 17:47
  • Please update your question to show a way that actually reproduces the problem.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    May 13, 2017 at 21:34

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