How to make sshfs work?

Question

I want to mount the remote fs that I connect through ssh so that I can use an editor to edit the files. I installed sshfs for this.

Running the command:

sudo sshfs [email protected]:/ /mnt/ec2-deep/

gives me this error:

read: Connection reset by peer

I tried to remove this error by adding my user to fuse(which was the suggestion here) But it tells me that there's no group called fuse in my system. What should I do to make sshfs work?
My environment is:
OS : Ubuntu 16.04

Output of aptitude show fuse :

Package: fuse                     
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.9.4-1ubuntu3.1
Priority: standard
Section: utils
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 106 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libfuse2 (= 2.9.4-1ubuntu3.1), adduser, mount (>= 2.19.1), sed (>= 4)
Conflicts: fuse:i386
Description: Filesystem in Userspace
 Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. It also aims to
 provide a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem implementations.
Homepage: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/

Strange. `sshfs` has a depency on `fuse`. What does `aptitude show fuse` say? — maulinglawns, Sep 28 '16 at 12:30
Are you able to `sudo sftp [email protected]`? If not, what is its output? You may try running with an additional `-v` for extra verbosity. — user, Sep 28 '16 at 15:36
Root probably can't log in to the remote system because it doesn't have the private key. Why aren't you running sshfs as your own user? What is the output of `ls -l /dev/fuse` ? — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Sep 28 '16 at 23:19

How to make sshfs work?

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