I am trying to allow my laptop (Ubuntu 13.04) to access my PC (Lubuntu 13.04) hard drive through SSHFS. I'm using RSA keys to connect.

It works perfectly fine if I type this in the terminal:

sshfs my-PC:/a_folder /media/a_folder

But I would like it to be mounted automatically when I boot my laptop. So I added myself to the fuse group:

sudo adduser mynickname fuse

And I added the following line to my fstab file:

sshfs#mynickname@my-PC:/a_folder /media/a_folder fuse defaults,idmap=user,_netdev 0 0

When I boot the laptop, a_folder appears in the list of devices, but is not mounted. When I try to access it through Nautilus, it displays the following error:

mount: only root can mount sshfs#mynickname@my-PC:/a_folder on /media/a_folder

I get the same error if I try

mount /media/a_folder

in a terminal.

If I try

sudo mount /media/a_folder

I get

read: Connection reset by peer

I tried to add "allow_other" as an option in the fstab entry, and uncommented the related line in /etc/fuse.conf, but it didn't change anything.

The user "mynickname" is the owner of the folder /media/a_folder and has rwx permissions.

I looked at many threads on the internet about people with quite similar issues, but nothing worked so far. Usually, people can't even do

sshfs my-PC:/a_folder /media/a_folder

without getting an error, whereas this works fine on my laptop.

Any insight and tips will be greatly appreciated! Thanks.