Osxfuse: Error 255 when attempting to mount ssh drive

[AlexWang-16]

Hey everyone, I'm a first time macfuse and sshfs user. I've installed Macfuse v3.7.1 as well as ssh fs.

I then performed the following steps:

1. Opened terminal and navigated to my desktop
2. mkdir server
3. sshfs [email protected]:/ server:/

I got the following message
mount_osxfuse: the file system is not available (255)

Can someone please help me out? How can I get sshfs to work? I'm on MacOS 10.13.1 right now. Thanks in advance.

[swt2c]

Try sshfs [email protected]:/ server instead.

[AlexWang-16]

Just tried it and it didn't work either.

I tried the following

sshfs [email protected]:/ server

sshfs [email protected]:/ /Users/Alex/Desktop/server

I got the same error on both attempts.

[DanielFarber]

Are you simultaneously running VMWare Fusion?

[guyzmo]

Hi, I'm having the same error, when doing a command I've been running regularly for a while. I'm pretty sure it was working during december, and it's not anymore. I'm ssh-ing from a mac client to a linux server.

on the mac:

SSHFS version 2.10
OSXFUSE 3.7.1
FUSE library version: 2.9.7
fuse: no mount point

on the linux:

OpenSSH_7.5p1, OpenSSL 1.1.0e  16 Feb 2017

there's nothing visible in the logs, and nothing with -d option. ssh to the server works.

% sshfs user@server:/mountpoint ./mountpoint
mount_osxfuse: the file system is not available (255)

[guyzmo]

ok, I finally found out what it was. It was related to the number of virtual devices allowed: cf https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/358

I shut the smbfs kernel extension, and voila !