Sorry for my delay--had other fish to fry.
I'm now on 10.6, and the situation has changed a bit for the worse. I
blew away all keychain entries pertaining to the host in question, to
no effect. I also deleted and re-downloaded Macfusion, just for good
measure.
I now get "Could not mount filesystem: Remote host has disconnected"
for any host I attempt to mount with Macfusion. I get the same
results on the command line using /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/
PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshfs-static.
I've downloaded a more recent version of sshfs-static from the MacFUSE
site, and installed it in /usr/local/bin as sshfs. using this at the
command line works fine. If I rename the bundled sshfs-static in
Macfusion, and ln -s /usr/local/bin/sshfs sshfs-static, then I get
behavior in the GUI identical to before--all hosts seem to work except
the one I really want. It's possible that I had made this swap to
make Macfusion use the newer verison of sshfs when I posted before.
I recognize that to really solve this problem myself, I'd download the
code and figure it out for myself...I may do that at some point, but
it's unlikely--I'm afraid I just don't have time. So: what options
would the GUI be passing on? If I can send those options to the
command line, we should see the same behavior... How do I increase
the time interval?
--A.