I find it hard to believe that I'm the only one at TMO trying to get the N900 and Ubuntu 12.04 PC to see each other via USB. I think I got it to work once while I tried SSHFS and got the error I posted. That was before repartitioning the eMMC.

I must be doing something wrong, what did you guys do to solve the problem? I'm willing to reflash the N900 and reinstall Ubuntu if that helps.