Docker add network drive as volume on windows

Question

I am trying to mount a network drive as a volume. This is the command I am trying

docker run -v //NetworkDirectory/Folder:/data alpine ls /data

I am running this command on windows and the data directory is coming up empty. How can I mount this network directory as a volume on the windows host and access it inside the container?

Working with local directories works just fine, so the following command works as expected.

docker run -v c:/Users/:/data alpine ls /data

I can make it work in linux since I can mount the share with cifs-utils on a local directory and use that directory as the volume.

Edit: Looks like this is not possible: How to mount network Volume in Docker for Windows (Windows 10)

Answer 1

My colleague came up with this and it works with our company network drive and it might help someone out there.

We start by creating a docker volume named mydockervolume.

docker volume create --driver local --opt type=cifs --opt device=//networkdrive-ip/Folder --opt o=user=yourusername,domain=yourdomain,password=yourpassword mydockervolume

• --driver specifies the volume driver name
• --opt Sets driver specific options. I guess they are given to the linux mount command when the container starts up.

We can then test that the volume works with
docker run -v mydockervolume:/data alpine ls /data

Here you can read more about driver specific options and docker volume create

Answer 2

I didn't find a native CIFS storage driver on docker.

You can use an external volume plugin like this one: https://github.com/ContainX/docker-volume-netshare which support NFS, AWS EFS & Samba/CIFS