How to set the shared drives in Docker for Windows?

Question

How to set the shared drives in Docker for Windows? I am using the latest version 18. Stable and Edge. My settings screen is shown below. It's missing some options like Shared Drives, Advanced and Network, which are shown in the second image. Why am I missing these options?

My settings:

Screen from a website:

Answer 1

Seems you are Running Docker for Windows using "Windows Containers". If you switch to "Linux containers" you'll see "Shared Drives" option. Take a look this video.

According Docker documentation: shared drives for Windows containers is not implemented.

Volume mounting requires shared drives for Linux containers (not for Windows containers).

Update: Since 2018, Docker for Desktop is using a new UI. I recorded a new video showing how to solve this problem.

Update: If you are using WSL2 you will be experiencing same problem. Take a look this video.

Answer 2

Ended up here, because the "Shared drives" was missing on my docker settings. If you are missing it too, but docker is set for linux container then it is because WSL 2.

Because if you are using Docker on WSL 2, there is no such option, but you can directly attach volumes from filesystem with docker run -v c:\...\your-folder:/mount ... without specifying it in docker settings.

Answer 3

In new UIs they are placed under resources