title: share windows folder (other than c/Users/) with docker container (using docker windows client)
body: <p>Using docker client, is there a way to share a folder in windows with a docker container without having to first share the folder via the Virtual Box VM. </p>
  
  <p>Have understood the need of having a double slash from <a href="https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/issues/846" rel="nofollow">this</a> and <a href="https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/12751" rel="nofollow">this</a></p>
  
  <p>Ran the following command from the docker client for windows</p>
  
  <pre><code>docker run -it -v //F/devfolder:/development/windev &lt;imagename&gt; &lt;cmdname&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but when did a ls on /development/windev , it turned out it was empty. </p>
  
  <p>I did not have any problem when I tried mounting the c/Users/username folder via the following command</p>
  
  <pre><code>docker run -it -v //c/Users/username/desktop:/development/windev &lt;image&gt; &lt;command&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and the windev folder listed the contents as I would expect it to be</p>
  
  <p>Tried sharing F/devFolder via Virtualbox GUI and gave full access but still the contents of the folder is not listed. </p>
  
  <p>[I am not using boot2docker but docker-machine]</p>
  
  <p>Is it not possible to share any other folder than the c/Users/ folder? If yes, anything else I need to do to ensure that I can see the contents of the mounted folder? </p>