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Using the MultiuserCommon.cfg file

If you have multiple servers running on multiple computers, you can use a MultiuserCommon.cfg file to make it easy to apply the same settings to all your servers. This file is read by each of the servers when they start up, before they read the Multiuser.cfg file. By using both of these files, you can give your servers the same values for some settings and different values for others.

To configure multiple servers using both a MultiuserCommon.cfg and a Multiuser.cfg file:

1 | Install the server on each computer.
2 | Create a single MultiuserCommon.cfg file with the settings you want to be common to all the servers.
3 | Place the MultiuserCommon.cfg file in a location of your choice.
4 | Enable file sharing for the file so each copy of the server can have access to it. See your operating system documentation for more information on this.
5 | Create an alias or shortcut to the file and place a copy of it next to each copy of the server.
6 | Edit the Multiuser.cfg file for each server with the individual settings you choose. If a parameter appears in both the MultiuserCommon.cfg file and a specific Multiuser.cfg file, the setting in the Multiuser.cfg file has precedence.