If mixed censhare versions are used on one machine the CBFS Installer is needed to run older and newer clients in parallel

With censhare versions 4.7.28, 4.8.9, 4.9.3, 5.0.0 and above the new windows CBFS 5 version was introduced.

CBFS 6 starts with 5.8.15, 2017.1.7, 2017.2.8, 2017.3.4, 2017.4.1, 2017.5.0 CBFS 2017 (new name schema) starts with censhare 2019.1

Important hint

Client and RenderClient can use different CBFS versions:

  • The censhare server itself does neither use nor need CBFS. The same is valid for AdminClient and ServiceClient.

  • Using the censhare client installer of clients 4.7.28, 4.8.9, 4.9.3, 5.0.0 and above will uninstall the old CBFS 4 and 5, as this in general should be desired on an update. Client installers of clients 2019 will uninstall CBFS 4, 5 and 6. For systems working with different censhare versions - e.g. a productive and a test environment - this behaviour is not useful. This is the reason why we provide client independent CBFS installers additionally to allow a parallel installation of CBFS versions.

Scenario

If you have an older installation with 4.7.20 (CBFS 4) and another one with 4.8.5 (CBFS 4) all works fine. Let us assume you want to update one of these clients using CBFS 4 to a client using CBFS 2017 now. Using the client installer will generate the required registry entries, but will also uninstall the CBFS 4 and install CBFS 2017. Starting your client using CBFS 4 will result in a message CBFS is not available. To fix this you simply use the separate CBFS 4 installer which will install CBFS 4 in parallel to CBFS 2017. Now the clients will use their desired CBFS version.

So if you have any problems with CBFS 4, 5, 6 or 2017 use the regarding separate CBFS installer.

Where to find the installer

The CBFS installer can be found on the censhare ecosphere Tracker using the predefined search _Downloads. Here goto: censhare-downloads / censhare-ClientSoftware / CBFS-Installer WIN = Virtual FileSystem Or simply search for the asset ID 2542689.

Hint: There are no known problems on mac - so there is no separate VFS installer. All VFS versions are compatible here to each other but you need to take care of the "recommendation for use of different VFS versions and OS X"(asset ID 2876592) if you use the separate installer. Client installers will automatically decide for the correct version required by different OS X versions.