macFUSE giving mount_macfuse: mount point ... is itself on a macFUSE volume - Apple M1 macOS 12.3

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This issue is driving me crazy. I keep getting an error: "macFUSE giving mount_macfuse: mount point ... is itself on a macFUSE volume "

where ... is my mount point

when i run sshfs --version i clearly dont have the correct FUSE version coming up, according to my install i have 4.2.4 installed under system prferences with macOS 12.3

i tried installing FUSE from the .dmg, i removed it, tried installing via brew.. restart after restart. upgraded the OS to latest. Homebrew 3.4.2

output from terminal when running "sshfs --version"

SSHFS version 2.5 (OSXFUSE SSHFS 2.5.0)
FUSE library version: 2.9.9
fuse: no mount point

Ive never been able to mount an external host fs using the simple command:

sudo sshfs hosta:/ ~/Desktop/2 -o defer_permissions,auto_cache,reconnect,volname=hostamnt

can anyone shed some light on this issue?

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2 Answers

For me, the problem was in the selection of options. The following finally worked, based on this:

mkdir ~/sshfs_mount

sshfs -o kill_on_unmount,reconnect,allow_other,defer_permissions,direct_io,IdentityFile=~/.ssh/id_rsa the_user@10.15.32.17:/home/the_user/ ~/sshfs_mount

# <<< the folder is mounted and visible in the finder >>

umount ~/sshfs_mount

P.S Remove ,IdentityFile=~/.ssh/id_rsa to match your connection configs

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Heads up with macOS Ventura (beta), I had the same error.

It looks like for some reason I wasn't able to mount in a folder in my user directory. Doing it in /tmp worked fine though. This may be some new directory protection thing.

So slightly amending Oleg O's great answer above and reusing their options, this worked for me:

mkdir /tmp/fuse

sshfs -o kill_on_unmount,reconnect,allow_other,defer_permissions,direct_io,IdentityFile=~/.ssh/id_rsa ubuntu@192.168.205.13:/home/ubuntu/ /tmp/fuse

umount /tmp/fuse
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