Question: My web development server is in the Cloud and I am very new to Macs.

On Ubuntu and other flavors of Linux, I would mount the remote drives using sshfs. I have researched SSHFS for Mac and come up with **FUSE for OS x** and **MacFUSE**. I have them both installed but when I attempt to run *man sshfs* on my commandline I get a command not found error.

Unless I am missing something, I can't find simple instructions to help me resolve this issue.

I have tried **Mount** and **Mount\_smbfs** too but I immediately get *server connection failed: operation timed out* errors.

My Mac runs on OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)

Can anyone please give me some simple steps to help overcome this obstacle?

Answer: 
It looks like the software might not be installed the right way, or in the right place. On a Mac, the easiest way to install sshfs and fuse is with Homebrew. 

1. Install Homebrew <http://brew.sh/>
2. `brew install sshfs`

This will install dependencies such as fuse4x. Read all the instructions that appear -- some of other steps may be required, such as

`brew link fuse4x`  

`sudo /bin/cp -rfX /usr/local/Cellar/fuse4x-kext/0.9.2/Library/Extensions/fuse4x.kext /Library/Extensions`  

`sudo chmod +s /Library/Extensions/fuse4x.kext/Support/load_fuse4x`
If you have installed **Fuse for OSX** you will find the binary you are searching at `/Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshfs-static`.

You can use `ln -s [Path-like-above] [Your-favorit-bin-path]/sshfs` if you want to call it with `sshfs`.

If you get a `command not found` error and not a `No manual entry for sshfs`, then `man` is not found and this indicates no issue with **sshfs**.