Hey all;

I have been going thru the Wiki, but for the life of me, I cannot find any docs regarding using a multi-serve setup.

I am talking about how Sychro.net itself has vert, cvs, bbs ...etc, and they are all connected

Any hints? I am admitting defeat, and I know it will most likely be something as simple as "go here"

Thanks

-nick

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Re: How to setup a multi-server BBS?
By: nixx to All on Fri Jul 03 2026 06:27 pm

I have been going thru the Wiki, but for the life of me, I cannot find any docs regarding using a multi-serve setup.

I am talking about how Sychro.net itself has vert, cvs, bbs ...etc, and they are all connected

What do you mean by multi-server? Synchronet has multiple types of servers built-in (Telnet, SSH, RLogin, web, NNTP, etc.), and all you need to do is just run sbbs.

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Re: How to setup a multi-server BBS?
By: nixx to All on Fri Jul 03 2026 06:27 pm

Hey all;

I have been going thru the Wiki, but for the life of me, I cannot find any docs regarding using a multi-serve setup.

I am talking about how Sychro.net itself has vert, cvs, bbs ...etc, and they are all connected

Any hints? I am admitting defeat, and I know it will most likely be something as simple as "go here"

Put the Synchronet directory tree on a network-share (e.g. NAS or Samba share). Each BBS host/server is a client of that share. Each host gets its own sbbs.ini file (named ctrl/sbbs.<hostname>.ini) - otherwise, all files are shared. That's it. :-)
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Re: How to setup a multi-server BBS?
By: Digital Man to nixx on Fri Jul 03 2026 13:59:28

Re: How to setup a multi-server BBS?
By: nixx to All on Fri Jul 03 2026 06:27 pm

Hey all;

I have been going thru the Wiki, but for the life of me, I cannot find any docs regarding using a multi-serve
setup.

I am talking about how Sychro.net itself has vert, cvs, bbs ...etc, and they are all connected

Any hints? I am admitting defeat, and I know it will most likely be something as simple as "go here"

Put the Synchronet directory tree on a network-share (e.g. NAS or Samba share). Each BBS host/server is a client of
that share. Each host gets its own sbbs.ini file (named ctrl/sbbs.<hostname>.ini) - otherwise, all files are shared.
That's it. :-)

See.. "go here" :)

Thank you very much

-nic

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Re: How to setup a multi-server BBS?
By: Nightfox to nixx on Fri Jul 03 2026 13:10:36

Re: How to setup a multi-server BBS?
By: nixx to All on Fri Jul 03 2026 06:27 pm

I have been going thru the Wiki, but for the life of me, I cannot find any docs regarding using a multi-serve
setup.

I am talking about how Sychro.net itself has vert, cvs, bbs ...etc, and they are all connected

What do you mean by multi-server? Synchronet has multiple types of servers built-in (Telnet, SSH, RLogin, web,
NNTP,
etc.), and all you need to do is just run sbbs.

DigitalMan replied to me...

I am talking about running multiple instances of sbbs that are connected under the same BBS

For example, you can connect to [vert|bbs|cvs].sychro.net with the same account, even though one is running on Windows, another on Linux and the last on Windows/HyperV.

The solution is much simpler than I expected, just share the directory somehow (SMB or NFS are my best bets here)

I guess I should have used "instance" instead of "server"

Thank you all

ZZ

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Re: How to setup a multi-server BBS?
By: nixx to Nightfox on Sat Jul 04 2026 02:41 pm

The solution is much simpler than I expected, just share the directory somehow (SMB or NFS are my best bets here)

I created a wiki page on this topic as well: https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:multihost
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Re: How to setup a multi-server BBS?
By: nixx to Nightfox on Sat Jul 04 2026 14:41:35

This is me, I think...

You think, therefore, you are.

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