Hi. I'm trying to access to containerd (or docker/moby)-API via TCP from the windows command line (or via the gradle-docker-plugin from our build files). But the connection to tcp://localhost:2375 is refused. If tried to change the sockets/hosts via /etc/docker/daemon.json but then i run into https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/discussions/2304. Is there any way to achieve remote access to containerd/docker with Rancher-Desktop, ideally without TLS at least for local connections?

For Rancher Desktop on Windows, the docker daemon is set up as a Windows named pipe:

npipe:////./pipe/docker_engine

which would only allow for local connections.

I don't think this is currently possible, and created an enhancement request from the discussion item: https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/2851

At least for my use-case, moby/dockerd would be fine. Until then i've got to stay with docker-desktop or run docker-cli in a custom build distribution as the gradle-plugin used to build (and test) containers does not work with named pipes. Thank you for the quick replies!