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mount denied: source path too many colons

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, shell

Research direction

Start by following the README steps on a Windows system and capture the exact command and source path that produce Docker's "mount denied: the source path too many colons" error. Trace how the toolkit builds the mount path; done means the documented setup completes without this daemon error.

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Description

Steps to Reproduce

  1. follow readme steps (on a Windows OS system).
  2. be dissapointed because it says "Error response from daemon: mount denied: the source path too many colons".

Expected Behaviour

should not get dissapointed

Context

just wanted it to work

Dominant language
Shell
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
1

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