New to jms multi and need help.

i have everything installed and working correctly just cant get my sites to do what i need.

i have a joomla web site for a wine company (with a virtue mart store, jevents calendar) the master site is the wine companies tasting room, the company has three different wine brands that they want to sell in the tasting room site and their own individual sites.

the wine brand sites (ie. brand-x , brand-y, and brand-z) will also sell the wine in their site. they want the customer to be able to buy the wine in any of the four sites but have only the tasting room site as the place to manage the products, price changes order info...

i have tried building three slave sites... but they dont talk to eachother

i tried creating a sharing rule based on the master... but but when they try to check out in a brand site it sends them back to the master.

i am totaly confused any help would be appreiciated

With VirtueMart, the check-out is perform using the VM "configuration" and the "site" tab.
Wheck the URL present in the "Secure" site.
Probably you have the URL of the master.

If you don't go in the back-end of the slave site to modify the VM secure URL, this will use the one present in the master and therefore redirect the users to the master.

So the key element is to verify that you have correctly configure the VM of each slave site.
Becarefull also that when you edit the VM Configuration that you are redirected on the admin of the correct site. It may happen that you are also redirected on the master.
In this case, you have to modify manually the VM configuration file that is present in the
administrator\components\com_virtuemart\virtuemart.cfg.php

thank you, that makes sense about VM. if i make the changes you point out would the customer order information be passed on to the master site?

on another subject.

can i make a replicate master sharing rule that will allow me to change the appearance of the new site without affecting the master?

for some reason when i try to log into the admin panel for one of my new sites i get sent to the master login ... is something set up wrong?

If you go in your master when you try to configure the VM, read again my previous reply, this mean that you have a configuration that has the wrong SECURE_URL parameter in the VM configuration. So update the VM configuration manually.
This simply mean that you didn't have updated the configuration correctly the first time and saved in the slave site the infos corresponding to the master.
So there is no other way than update the file manually to fix that.