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I'm trying to mount a remote directory using sshfs. I've got my .ssh/config set up so that I can ssh into my user on the remote machine like so

ssh wdev

The remote directory in question (let's suppose it's located at ~/runtime for the remote user remoteuser) is pretty large (it's ye old big C++ project, complete with build files and a lot of folders).

From what I've read online, I should be able to mount runtime to a folder ~/local-mount (which I've already created) like so:

$ sshfs wdev:/home/myuser/runtime ~/local-mount

However when I run this, there's no output whatsoever. Running sshfs with the -d flag is slightly more informative

$ sshfs -d wdev:/home/myuser/runtime ~/local-mount
FUSE library version: 2.9.7
nullpath_ok: 0
nopath: 0
utime_omit_ok: 0

However at this point the output stops. What's more, it seems to freeze up other things too. If I open up another shell and try to ls ~/local-mount, it just stays suspended until I interrupt with Ctrl+c. This happens even if I just trigger autocompletion on the directory name from my shell

ls ~/loca<TAB>

nautilus won't even open. All these symptoms persist until I interrupt the process running sshfs, at which point everything resumes normally. Can someone help me with getting this to run properly?

I should note that while mangling the hostname in the sshfs command will immediately yield an error, I can mangle the remote folder name however I want and I'll still get the same behavior

For what it's worth, I've attached my ~/.ssh/config below. My connections to wdev actually get forwarded through the proxy wsl, if it's relevant

# --- init_sd_card generated ---

Use the key for all hosts


IdentityFile /home/local_user/.ssh/id_rsa


Host wsl
    User remote-user
    HostName 10.0.0.211
    Port 2222


https://superuser.com/questions/107679/forward-ssh-traffic-through-a-middle-machine


Host wdev
    User remote-user
    HostName 10.240.115.106
    ProxyCommand ssh wsl -C -W %h:%p
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Looks like my usage was correct and there was an error in my ssh config. The things that tipped me off was that ssh'ing into wdev worked fine, but trying to ssh into wsl didn't work.

I'm still not sure what was causing that, but I ended up purging/reinstalling the ssh server on wsl and that seems to have fixed things

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