Often [[NFS ]] in VE doesn't container does not work because off of misconfiguration. This article contents contains known reasons of NFS related such problems, that are not bugs,as well as solutions for those. == Mount hangs == === Symptoms ===but misconfigurations.<tt>mount</tt> command hangs or takes a very long time to complete:

=== Reason Reasons ===* Lockd is not running on the NFS server* Portmap (older) or rpcbind (newer) is not running on the NFS client* Networking is broken (e.g. scripts brought up default route but not IP address yet)

=== Workaround Solution ===Two options are possible:

* {{Bug|620}} == Permission denied after mount == === Symptoms === After a successful mount it is not possible to enter the mounted directory.  === Reasons and Solution === * Possible the wrong authentification method for NFS is used. Try to add the mount option <code>sec=sys</code> to use the system mount option [http://bugzilla.openvzworkaround.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620node/265]