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so are you using docker or containerd in the RD container engine pref? and does

docker context ls

show rancher-desktop?

If that thing is talking to the docker socket directly (ignoring contexts), you'll need to turn on administrative access instead. But if using the context works, do that instead.

Seems the error was mostly because my username exceeded the UNIX_PATH_MAX=104 characters limit. Somehow i got it resolved.