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Find your user id and group id on Windows
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Docker for Windows
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On Docker for Windows it is **not necessary** to change uid and gid in your ``.env`` file.

.. note::
   Docker for Windows is internally using network shares (SMB) to mount Docker volumes.
   This does not require to syncronize file and directoriy permissions via uid and gid.


Docker Toolbox
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On Docker Toolbox it is important that you open up a Docker environment prepared terminal window.

.. seealso::

   * :ref:`howto_open_terminal_on_win`


Find your user id (``uid``)
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Type the following command to retrieve the correct ``uid``.

.. code-block:: bash

   host> id -u


Find your group id (``gid``)
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Type the following command to retrieve the correct ``gid``.

.. code-block:: bash

   host> id -g
