Cannot connect to the Docker daemon in Rancher Desktop

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

You were not supposeed to put the whole post into a single code block, only the code. I fixed it for you now.

Also you are using Rancher DEsktop, which is not Docker DEsktop, so I moved your question out of the Docker Desktop related topic.

Regarding the error message, I made a blogpost about this recently, which I shared on the forum as well

Tutorial: Solve the error message: "Is the Docker daemon running"

Originally I published this tutorial on dev.to, and I copied the whole content here so you can read it regardless of the availability of dev.to, since it explains a common issue we see on the forum. If you find that this post is not in sync with the external content, please, let me know in a comment here or on dev.to. Introduction There is a common error message that Docker users get Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running? Sometimes …

I haven’t mentioned Rancher Desktop directly in that post, but you can find links to previous posts where I did. How it.

Your commands show that your current wsl distro is an opensuse. I don’t know if Rancher Desktop supports WSL integration. If not, run your commands directly on the Windows host.

Based on Docker Desktop, I can say you should not expect findind a dockerd process in your custom wsl distro as it will run in the docker desktop distribution. In case of Rancher dEsktop, it must be “rancher-desktop”.