Hi Tom, thanks for chiming in.
I executed the following, with output displayed. To summarize, yes, I’m able to manually mount via the line you suggested but the mount point gets ignored when mounting via /etc/fstab.
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo umount /mnt/sshfsmount
osmc@osmc:~$ ls -al /mnt/sshfsmount
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 osmc osmc 4096 Feb 17 08:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 17 08:03 ..
osmc@osmc-turtle:~$ sshfs -o idmap=user,allow_other,nonempty remoteusername@ip.of.server:/media/sshfsmount/ /mnt/sshfsmount
osmc@osmc:~$ ls -al /mnt/sshfsmount/ total 68
drwx------ 1 osmc 1903 4096 Feb 13 11:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 17 08:03 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 osmc 1903 269 Feb 12 21:37 .bash_aliases
-rw------- 1 osmc 1903 7899 Feb 15 23:05 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 osmc 1903 220 Feb 12 21:37 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 osmc 1903 42 Feb 12 21:37 .bashrc
drwx------ 1 osmc 1903 4096 Feb 12 21:42 .config
drwx------ 1 osmc 1903 4096 Feb 12 22:25 .nano
drwxr-xr-x 1 osmc 1903 4096 Feb 13 00:32 .nginx
-rw-r--r-- 1 osmc 1903 677 Feb 12 21:37 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 osmc 1903 1061 Feb 13 00:32 .rtorrent.rc
drwx------ 1 osmc 1903 4096 Feb 13 07:42 .ssh
drwx------ 1 osmc 1903 4096 Feb 12 23:18 Downloads
-rw------- 1 osmc 1903 1329 Feb 13 22:25 action.log
drwxr-xr-x 1 osmc 1903 4096 Feb 13 00:32 private
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo umount /mnt/sshfsmount
osmc@osmc:~$ ls -al /mnt/sshfsmount/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 osmc osmc 4096 Feb 17 08:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 17 08:03 ..
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo mount -av
/mnt/media : ignored # <--- SAMBA/CIFS share on local network
/mnt/sshfsmount : ignored
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo mount -v
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=791584k,nr_inodes=197896,mode=755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/mapper/vero--nand-root on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,stripe=1024,data=ordered)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/bfqio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,bfqio)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=32,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
sunrpc on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
systemd-1 on /mnt/media type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=47,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
//192.168.0.1/Seagate_Expansion_Drive/Media on /mnt/media type cifs (rw,relatime,vers=1.0,sec=ntlm,cache=strict,uid=1000,forceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=192.168.0.1,unix,posixpaths,serverino,acl,rsize=61440,wsize=65536,actimeo=1)
/dev/mapper/vero--nand-root on /var/lib/docker/aufs type ext4 (rw,relatime,stripe=1024,data=ordered)
none on /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/877c796b808d953f9f25d0475c8d97602492a1f874fae6666cdacecf127f8208 type aufs (rw,relatime,si=da0eb17592cfd597,dio,dirperm1)
shm on /var/lib/docker/containers/a4cbb6a6ac71691bea1f7dca556ab75c532452e20cbafa65a5c0ac7f230ea12d/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=65536k)
proc on /run/docker/netns/c1506ebae9b8 type proc (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=183224k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)