Docker issue with rtorrent socket on Windows

[beeeeeeep]

I'm trying to use the rtorrent Docker image on Windows with sockets, using WSL 2 Ubuntu 20.04. I get the following error:

rtorrent: Error in option file: ~/.rtorrent.rc:143: Could not prepare socket for listening: Not supported

Here's the relevent bit of my docker-compose.yml:

rtorrent:
    image: jesec/rtorrent
    user: ${DOCKER_USER}:${DOCKER_GROUP}
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: -o network.port_range.set=50000-50000,system.daemon.set=true
    environment:
      HOME: /config
    volumes:
      - ./rtorrent_config:/config
      - ${TORRENTS}:/torrents
    network_mode: "service:openvpn"
    depends_on:
      - "openvpn"

And line 143 of .rtorrent.rc is

network.scgi.open_local = /config/.local/share/rtorrent/rtorrent.sock

[jesec]

UNIX socket can only reside in a local UNIX file system. You may not place it to any shared mounts.

Don't do that. Generally you should not run torrent clients in virtual machines (WSL is basically VM). Instead, use a torrent client that supports Windows natively such as qBittorrent or Transmission.

[beeeeeeep]

Ah, that explains it. Thanks a bunch.