Comment 3 for bug 94942

Same thing here.

I investigated a little bit and the shfs kernel module seems to unmaintained since 2004.
There are at least 2 kernel changes that make 2.6.20 incompatible with the module.

However, there is a package sshfs which provides equivalent functionality using fuse.
Install it and add your user to the fuse group, then do
sshfs <Host>:<RemotePath> <LocalMountPoint>

Unfortunately mount -t sshfs ... does not seem to be supported.

Conclusion: Use sshfs, shfs-source is unmaintained, broken and should be removed.

da1l6