Mount SMB/CIFS share within a Docker container

Question

I have a web application running in a Docker container. This application needs to access some files on our corporate file server (Windows Server with an Active Directory dom

Answer 1

Yes, Docker is preventing you from mounting a remote volume inside the container as a security measure. If you trust your images and the people who run them, then you can use the --privileged flag with docker run to disable these security measures.

Further, you can combine --cap-add and --cap-drop to give the container only the capabilities that it actually needs. (See documentation) The SYS_ADMIN capability is the one that grants mount privileges.