Joomla/Eclipse Development setup

So, what I thought would be a simple case of setting up a sftp mount through the gui for Eclipse to have access to a remote file system turned out to be not so simple. To get eclipse access to the webserver's directories I had to :

1. Install sshfs (through the software center for Ubuntu)
2. Add myself to the fuse group (though I believe this was useless in the end)
3. Create a dir to mount the sshfs
4. Backup /etc/fuse.conf (I used bk_fuse.conf)
5. Remove the # from allow_other_user in fuse.conf
   
6. Run: sshfs user@hostname:remote_dir local_dir -o allow_other
   e.g. # sshfs root@192.168.1.100:/ /media/rm_mount_point -o allow_other
   
7. Profit