How to Share Site Manager Information
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If you need to share same Site Manager information between all 3D-FTP installations in the network, you can make an entry to the registry in all workstations that are running 3D-FTP. You can find this registry entry is at

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SiteDesigner Technologies\3D-FTP\Options

SiteFile=\\server\shared\sites.ini

This registry setting specifies the location of the shared Site Manager file and sets 3D-FTP to share Site Manager mode. By default, all instances of 3D-FTP that use the shared Site Manager file open it as read-only. So no changes can be made via Site Manager. You can override this with the /M (=Master) command line switch, so start 3D-FTP with this command line:

3dftp.exe /M

In Master mode, the file is opened as writable and changes made to it are saved (and made visible to all 3D-FTP instances that use the shared file). This is convenient for admin PCs that can update the Site Manager information, while other installations can see the changes after 3D-FTP restarts.

If this "SiteFile" entry is not found in the registry, the SITES.INI file in the 3D-FTP installation folder is used for Site Manager information.