I believe you have to add a trailing slash to the remote path to avoid this bug, like so:
sshfs -o idmap=user remote_lucid:/data/ ~/mnt/lucid_data See this discussion from a year ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp .file-systems.fuse.sshfs/1182/focus=1189 Why this bug made it into Ubuntu 12.04 I have no idea. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006267 Title: sshfs in 12.04 doesn't like to mount to remote symlinks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sshfs-fuse/+bug/1006267/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs