Mount a Windows shared drive in a Docker container

Warning

This guide is specific to mounting shared drives that are compatible with a the cifs protocol. Please consult your IT team or online resources prior to running the commands described below. We cannot take responsibility for any loss of data that you may encounter when using these instructions. If you encounter any issues please contact your IT team or online resources.

Linux, Mac and Windows

  1. Edit the mount-shared-drive.sh script located in the development-environment/usr/bin folder and replace the following fields for the shared network drive that you wish to mount.

  • IP_ADDRESS

  • DRIVE_PATH

  • USER

  • DOMAIN

  1. Follow the instructions to run a commandline terminal in the development-environment container with the following addition - when issuing the docker run command, include a --privileged argument.

  2. Open a new terminal or PowerShell.

  3. Mount the shared drive by executing the following command:

docker exec -it --user root -e UPI=USER -e GRANT_SUDO=yes development-environment mount-shared-drive.sh

Replace USER in the command above with your username credentials for the mounted drive.

  1. You will be prompted for your password. Enter it.

  2. Exit the terminal/PowerShell.

The shared drive will now be available within the running container in the path specified in the mount-shared-windows-drive.sh script, and can be accessed by your IDEs e.g. within the Juypterlab interactive session.