Welcome to FSproxy Homepage!

FSproxy is a small application that runs in the system tray and lets you access GNU/Linux partitions from within Microsoft Windows. The list of detected partitions is always availible at \\fsproxy and a single one can easily be mapped to a network drive using address like \\fsproxy\<partition>. By default partitions are mounted as read-only but experimental write support can be enabled. FSproxy currently supports: ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, jfs, xfs and few other filesystems. For many of them there is no known Windows driver available (although note that FSproxy is not a driver itself).

Development has been discontinued.

Documentation

• Disclaimer: Read before installing.
• Using FSproxy: How to install and configure FSproxy.
• Troubleshooting FAQ
• How it works under the hood

System requirements

• Microsoft Windows XP or above (2000 is not supported).
• Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable (x86).
• Administrative privileges or UAC elevation.

Supported filesystems

• Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4
• ReiserFS
• JFS
• XFS
• HFS+ (think MacOS)
• BeFS
• Minix

See Troubleshooting FAQ for more information.

Changelog

1.0 RC2

• Added support for limited server control via ctl.cgi over HTTP.
• Server infopage is now more verbose.
• Experimental write support.
• Added context menu entry for switching between ro and rw modes.
• Added context menu entry for forcing filesystem sync.
• Agent can now monitor and display server status (starting/running).

1.0 RC1

• Initial release.

Known bugs

• Filesystems are not properly unmounted when FSproxy agent is closed due to system shutdown.
• Server is not responding when started at logon by FSproxy agent.

Used software

• Linux kernel 2.6.30.2 http://www.kernel.org
• Busybox 1.14.1 http://www.busybox.net
• Samba 3.4.0 http://www.samba.org
• thttpd 2.25b http://acme.com/software/thttpd
• Qemu 0.10.5 http://www.qemu.org
• file 4.26 http://darwinsys.com/file
• libcurl 7.19.5 http://curl.haxx.se
• Tango icon theme http://tango.freedesktop.org
• TUN/TAP network driver http://www.openvpn.net

Credits

FSproxy is (C) Copyright 2009 Michał Siejak.
FSproxy is licensed under GNU General Public License version 3.

If you find any bugs or if you have a suggestion of any kind please feel free to contact me.
Development of FSproxy has been discontinued.