bzr push sftp://somehost/bzr/myproject not working

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

Hi

I want to publish a branch over sftp and am following the tutorial
published overhere
http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/user-guide/index.html#publishing-a-branch

However the bzr push does not work for me if I execute the following command

bzr push sftp://somehost/bzr/myproject

it will say
bzr: ERROR: Parent directory of sftp://somehost/bzr/myproject does not exist.
You may supply --create-prefix to create all leading parent directories.

If I add --create-prefix it will say
bzr: ERROR: Permission denied: "/bzr": [Errno 13] Permission denied

If I just sftp to the host I can make directories

I'm running intrepid with bazaar 1.6.1

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Jaap