Settings to Windows Firewall to allow Docker for Windows to share drive

Question

Windows Firewall is blocking my attempt to allows Docker for Windows to share C: on windows 10 machine.

Works fine when Windows Firewall off. When its on I get

Answer 1

I tried everything listed here and on https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/360

Nothing worked for me.

I run my dev environment on a docker container, and while on Corporate VPN (Cisco AnyConnect), I need the to mount my local drive on the container to access my project files.

Here's a docker hack that worked for me. Add --publish 8000:8000 to your existing docker run command.

So

docker run -v C:/Users/kumar.joshi/KumarData:/mnt --name dev 

will become

docker run -v C:/Users/kumar.joshi/KumarData:/mnt --name dev --publish 8000:8000 

Make sure the port is not used else you will get this error:

Bind for 0.0.0.0:8000 failed: port is already allocated