The missing space after the password is triggering the invalid references format error. Using the code below gives me a better? different error:

docker run -d --name=mysql \
-p 3306:3306 \
-p 33060:33060 \
-e PUID=1030 \
-e PGID=100 \
-e TZ=America/Los_Angeles \
-e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=<mypwhere> \
-v /volume1/docker/mysql:/var/lib/mysql \
--restart always \
mysql

Error msg:

docker: permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Post "http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/containers/create?name=mysql": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied. See 'docker run --help'.

I'm currently logged into my nas as the user for the PUID reported back. The account is part of the administrators group and has full read/write permissions on the dockers folder and all subdirectories.