7 Existing binary Microsoft Windows file system drivers were exploited
8 for accessing drives with possibly proprietary file system data structures.
9 Open file system API is provided to access these file system drivers.
10 Microsoft Windows system components required by these drivers
11 were analyzed and successfuly emulated in the GNU/Linux operating system.
13 The implementation allows applications running under the GNU/Linux operating
14 system to access NTFS drives. File system driver compatibility with VFAT,
15 ISO9660 and EXT2 is also provided.
21 All the source packages involved in this project are GNU General Public License
22 2.0 (GPL-2.0) compatible (see the file "AUTHORS" for details). The purpose of
23 this project is to run the original Microsoft Windows drivers to get the best
24 filesystem compatibility and safety ever reachable. This is the method known
25 most by the Wine http://www.winehq.com/ project. Required driver files:
27 ntoskrnl.exe - Windows NT kernel; required for ANY use of this project.
28 ntfs.sys - NTFS filesystem driver; required to access NTFS disk drives.
30 Run captive-install-aquire(1) installer for proper guided steps.
33 Packaged Installations
34 ----------------------
36 Case #1 - All packages installed:
37 captive-install - Acquire needed MS-Windows drivers and setup /etc/fstab.
38 captive-lufs - Linux User File System module driver to be native filesystem.
39 captive - Base package of this project.
40 lufs >=0.9.6-1captive - Linux User File System engine for captive-lufs.
41 gnome-vfs-httpcaptive - Gnome-VFS httpcaptive:// method for captive-install.
42 ntfsprogs >=200309071734 - Readonly NTFS to get drivers by captive-install.
43 ntfsprogs-gnomevfs - Gnome-VFS readonly NTFS access used by captive-install.
45 Required W32 drivers were automatically found if Microsoft Windows XP is
46 installed on any (mounted or unmounted) NTFS or (mounted) FAT partition.
47 You may want to run captive-install-acquire(1) to check the drivers state
48 and possibly update them. Installer uses X Windows or console automatically.
50 Any NTFS disk partitions were automatically added to /etc/fstab.
51 These partitions are now available for mount by
52 mount /mnt/captive-DISK_LABEL
53 such as (if the label is empty)
56 Case #2 - Packages without installer:
57 captive-lufs - Linux User File System module driver to be native filesystem.
58 captive - Base package of this project.
59 lufs >=0.9.6-1captive - Linux User File System engine for captive-lufs.
61 You must obtain W32 drivers - at least "ntoskrnl.exe" and "ntfs.sys".
62 They should be stored in '/var/lib/captive' directory (lowercased filenames).
63 These driver must be from Microsoft Windows XP;
64 Service Pack 1 Check Build U.S. preferred:
65 http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/checkedbuild.asp
67 NTFS disk drives can be mounted by
69 mount -t captive-ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/drive-c
71 Case #3 - Command-line client (or Gnome-VFS) access only:
72 captive - Base package of this project.
74 You must obtain W32 drivers - at least "ntoskrnl.exe" and "ntfs.sys".
75 They should be stored in '/var/lib/captive' directory (lowercased filenames).
76 These driver must be from Microsoft Windows XP;
77 Service Pack 1 Check Build U.S. preferred.
78 http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/checkedbuild.asp
80 NTFS disk drives can be accessed by:
81 captive-cmdline --load-module=/tmp/ntoskrnl.exe --filesystem=/tmp/ntfs.sys \
82 --sandbox-server=/usr/sbin/captive-sandbox-server \
83 --bug-pathname=/tmp/captive-bug-%FT%T.captivebug.xml.gz \
85 (Backslash end-of-line characters '\' to be omitted for line continuation.)
87 In the case of 'sandbox' invocation error you can also run directly but
88 read/write (--rw) mode is definitely discouraged in such case:
89 captive-cmdline --load-module=/tmp/ntoskrnl.exe --filesystem=/tmp/ntfs.sys \
91 (Backslash end-of-line characters '\' to be omitted for line continuation.)
93 Gnome-VFS aware applications can access NTFS disk drives by:
94 gnomevfs-info file:///dev/hda1#captive-ntfs:/config.sys
95 gnomevfs-copy file:///dev/hda1#captive-ntfs:/config.sys /tmp/
96 You can replace 'captive-ntfs' by other supported methods, see:
97 /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/captive.conf
103 Case #1 - All packages installed:
104 ./configure --enable-lufs --enable-install-pkg
105 Case #2 - Packages without installer:
106 ./configure --enable-lufs
107 Case #3 - Command-line client (or Gnome-VFS) access only:
109 'configure' will compile 'Case #1' or 'Case #2' automatically if possible
110 when run with no arguments. For generic instructions see the file 'INSTALL'
117 Now you have './src/client/cmdline/captive-cmdline' available for testing.
118 Later you may invoke standard:
121 Manual addition of user and group 'captive' is required for '--sandbox-server':
128 Captive produces its bugreports automatically in '/var/lib/captive' directory
129 named by 'bug-yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.captivebug.xml.gz' template. Microsoft
130 Windows subsystem emulation failures should be reproducable from this snapshot
131 file. You should attempt to minimize the number of operations from the mount
132 operation till the expected crash to minimize the snapshot file size.
134 !!! Be aware '.captivebug.xml.gz' will contain data from your disk drive !!!
140 cvs -d :pserver:pserver@cvs.jankratochvil.net:/cvs login
141 Just hit ENTER (empty password)
142 cvs -d :pserver:pserver@cvs.jankratochvil.net:/cvs -z3 checkout -d captive priv/captive
144 cvs -d :pserver:pserver@cvs.jankratochvil.net:/cvs -z3 checkout -d reactos -r captive -kk priv/reactos
147 ./src/client/cmdline/captive-cmdline --load-module=/var/lib/captive/ntoskrnl.exe --filesystem=/var/lib/captive/ntfs.sys --disk --blind /dev/hda1
154 src/client/lufs - Linux User File System module to access NTFS as filesystem.
155 src/client/sandbox-server - Security+safety wrapper of emulated W32 environment.
156 Disable during debugging sessions.
157 src/client/cmdline - Simple ftp(1)-like client.
158 Fallback if LUFS client not usable; also useful during debugging.
159 src/install - 'captive-install' package contents
160 src/install/fstab - Search and add/remove 'captive-ntfs' /etc/fstab entries.
161 src/install/acquire - Search/download needed MS Windows XP driver files.
162 src/install/acquire/w32-mod-id.captivemodid.xml - List of supported W32 drivers.
165 src/client/gnomevfs - gnomevfs-copy(1) file:///dev/hda1#captive-ntfs:/config.sys
166 src/client/bug-replay - Debugging engine for files by --bug-pathname.
167 src/libcaptive/ke/exports.captivesym - List of implemented W32 API functions.
168 src/libcaptive/cc - Windows NT Cache Manager.
169 src/TraceFS - TraceFS W32 Cache Manager debug tracer utilities.
170 src/TraceFS/TraceFS-W32 - TraceFS native W32 Cache Manager debug tracer.
171 src/libcaptive/sandbox - CORBA/ORBit security+safety sandbox-server separation.
172 src/libcaptive/client - Code for interfacing libcaptive to its clients.
173 src/libcaptive/halcaptive - W32 hal.dll of captive.
174 src/libcaptive/include/captive - Include files for future 3rd party clients.
175 src/libcaptive/include/reactos - ReactOS include wrappers for UNIX gcc(1).
176 src/libcaptive/reactos - Build skeleton for gcc(1) compilation of ReactOS.
177 src/libcaptive/reactos/ntoskrnl - Compatible parts of ReactOS ntoskrnl.exe.
178 src/libcaptive/reactos/hal - Compatible parts of ReactOS hal.dll.
179 src/libcaptive/rtl/unicode.c - Interface UNIX UCS4/UTF8 vs. W32 UCS2 unicode.
180 src/libcaptive/storage - HDD/CD-ROM virtual block device UNIX<->W32 drivers.
181 src/libcaptive/se - Void security manager granting everything to everyone.
182 src/install/acquire/cabextract - Modified cabextract(1) for 'acquire'.
183 src/w32-mod - Supplied W32 driver module files.
184 macros - Generic AutoGen framework used by './autogen.pl' CVS bootstrapper.
185 captive.spec.in - Red Hat Linux packaging.
186 debian - Debian GNU/Linux packaging.
192 http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ is the most serious competitive NTFS driver
193 implementation. It is fully GPL-2.0 licensed and it needs no proprietary
194 drivers requirements. It should be now fully reliable for read/only operations.
195 Read/write operations are supported only for rewriting existing data blocks of
196 existing files - no file/directory create/delete operations possible.
198 'captive-install' package of this project 'ntfsprogs' package of Linux-NTFS
199 Project. This driver is very useful to obtain the original drivers from
200 Microsoft Windows XP already installed on existing NTFS disk partition by
201 'ntfsprogs' NTFS read/only access. 'ntfsprogs' are no longer used afterwards.
203 Although Linux-NTFS Project contains a lot of valuable reverse-engineering work
204 it is completely separated effort from Captive project, no knowledge can be
205 shared. Linux-NTFS revere-engineers on-disk data structures while Captive
206 reverse-engineers internal Windows NT kernel API.
209 Drivers Availability Details
210 ----------------------------
212 Microsoft Windows driver files are copyrighted by Microsoft corporation and
213 therefore they were not supplied along with this project. It is expected you
214 already have valid Microsoft Windows license if you need NTFS disk drive access
215 at all. Currently this project supports only driver files of Microsoft Windows
216 XP; other versions (such as NT-4.0, 2000 or 2003 Server) are currently not yet
217 supported. You still may safely access your NTFS disk drive of a different
218 MS-Windows version although depending on your country you may not have legal
219 rights to download the needed Microsoft Windows XP drivers if not owning
220 exactly the XP version license.
222 These drivers have only debugging meaning as such disks are well supported:
223 ext2fsd.sys - GNU/Linux EXT2 filesystem driver; supplied in: src/w32-mod/
224 fastfat.sys - FAT filesystem driver; required for (V)FAT-12/16/32 drives.
225 cdfs.sys - CDFS/ISO-9660 filesystem driver; required for CD-ROM media.
231 See the file 'INSTALL'.
237 See the file 'COPYING' and 'AUTHORS'.