Re: Yes thats what I thought

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[quote="Gotmallz"]I was wondering why I could not store the main customer DBase on one domain and the rest of the sites could feed off of it. This way all I have to do is redirect the dbase to that domain right? For the cookie I mean. Then just secure the session. I am not sure if this is even possible but yes all the sites are on the same boxes.[/quote]

The problem is that, as far as I know, you cannot share a cookie over several domains. (Unless you go with iiinetworks' suggestion of using subdomains.)

If you want completely transparent authentication across domains (true single signon) you would have to hand off signons for all comaind to a single signon server, but this is a technically fairly complicated affair.
If all your shops are on the same box (not even necessary, but somewhat easier), it would be relatively easy to share the authentication database, but this would require visitors to sign on seperately for each shop. (Using the same username and password).

HTH,
Rob