Why can't I setup an SSHFS share? "OSXFUSE file system is not available" error

I'm trying to setup an SSHFS share from my local machine to a remote machine, but it is not working. I'm getting the error OSXFUSE file system is not available (see below). How to fix this??

FYI, my local machine is a MacBook Pro laptop running OSX 10.9.3. The remote machine is actually a VirtualBox on the same hardware running CentOS.

% brew install sshfs                                # <---- SSHFS is installed
Warning: sshfs-2.5.0 already installed

% brew install osxfuse                              # <---- OSX Fuse is installed
Warning: osxfuse-2.6.4 already installed

% ssh remote_user@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX                   # <---- See, SSH works!!
Last login: Wed Jun 18 18:36:11 2014 from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
[remote_user@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX ~]% exit

% sudo mkdir /mnt
% sudo mkdir /mnt/Share    
% sudo sshfs -o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub remote_user@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/ /mnt/Share
the OSXFUSE file system is not available (-1)
the OSXFUSE file system is not available (1)

I tried solution described here. But it didn't work for me:

% sudo kextunload -b com.github.osxfuse.filesystems.osxfusefs
(kernel) Kext com.github.osxfuse.filesystems.osxfusefs not found for unload request.
Failed to unload com.github.osxfuse.filesystems.osxfusefs - (libkern/kext) not found.

Saqib Ali

Posted 2014-06-18T22:59:46.807

Reputation: 163

I have no MAC but have you ever installed a module you are trying to unload? If not, it's not strange that this command gives you an error. See here how a different MAC user has solved the same problem you have.

– Arkadiusz Drabczyk – 2014-06-21T22:36:16.183

This is a far stretch, but have you tried modprobe osxfuse? – Nathan C – 2014-06-24T14:54:11.883

I also have no Mac, but in the articles article1 and article2 I can see additional steps after the installation of sshfs, of cp and chmod. Maybe you should have look.

– harrymc – 2014-06-25T15:43:24.370

I installed osxfuse using the .pkg provided on their github page. This works, although obviously it doesn't show up in homebrew. The crucial files installed seems to be installed in the /Library/Filesystems/osxfusefs.fs/ package, in particular the kext can also be found in there. Perhaps you'd want to check if that it's there? – Saran – 2014-06-25T15:47:33.840

Have you tried to run sudo /bin/cp -RfX #{opt_prefix}/Library/Filesystems/osxfusefs.fs /Library/Filesystems and sudo chmod +s /Library/Filesystems/osxfusefs.fs/Support/load_osxfusefs from the caveat in the osxfuse homebrew fomula? – xuhdev – 2014-06-26T05:48:21.140

Why can't I setup an SSHFS share? "OSXFUSE file system is not available" error

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