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: 
First, you don't want to have both MacFUSE and FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE) installed, OSXFUSE is a replacement for MacFUSE, which is no longer under active development. 

OSXFUSE is not an application, it is a kernel extension and libraries that allow developers to easily write a file system that lives in user space rather than in the kernel. Once you have it installed you need to then install a file system, in your case sshfs, which can be found on the OSXFUSE website (<http://osxfuse.github.io/>).

Once you have both OSXFUSE and sshfs installed then you still won't have a Mac application, but you will have a command line tool `sshfs`in `/usr/local/bin` and a `man sshfs` at the command line will give you the manual page for it.

If you would like a GUI then you can install Macfusion (<http://macfusionapp.org/>) and follow the instructions here (<https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/SSHFS#macfusion>) so that it uses the much more reliable OSXFUSE version of sshfs rather than the MacFUSE based one it ships with.
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**.