Running in WSL2 on Windows 10 - getting wrong home directory

I have a .ipynb file which was meant for Unix/Linux based systems. Instead of trying to convert it over to Windows, and I don’t have a GPU in any Linux box, I am trying to run it in Debian subsystem. To get Jupyter to install & run in the Debian environment on Windows 10, I had to create and enter a Python environment.

I run Jupyter and it does run fine, but on the browser window, instead of seeing the Debian user folder of /home/trent, I am seeing C:\Users\Trent

I tried creating a configuration file in ~/.jupyter/jupyter_server_config.py and put c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir = ‘/home/trent’ in it and it has made no change.

The absolute path to /home/trent on WIndows is \\wsl$\Debian\home\trent\project\File.ipynb in which I tried File-> Open From Path and it failed with that.

Any other ideas? Thanks!