I have a pretty standard integration of SMF 1.02 and Mambo 4.5.1a, using your Mambo Integration component. In addition to this, I've got an extra installation of SMF 1.02 on the same database, which shares members, membergroups, and instant message tables, as per:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=16190.0;all . As the article says, I've simply done this by hacking all of the files in the sources directory, and changing the database prefix for the relevant tables. I've been using this setup for a while now, and the members, member groups and messages appear to be shared well, and generally the setup works fine.
What I was wondering, however, is whether it would be possible to install your mambo integration component a second time, so that both of my smf installations would be be able to work within the Mambo template.
Hope that clears it up, and thanks.
>Ben West
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