I have tried this and I keep getting the same message;

- Please enter a package directory

Edwin your unstructions are very clear, I'm sure I have followed them accurately, what am i missing? This should be easy right...

Rgds
Jamie

I know that first time I had to use this joomla feature, I had some problems.
Perhaps you could find a documentation somewhee in Joomla website that would help you do it

I did find a forum post that helped, it was to do with the 'path to - log & tmp' address.

forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=471&...=0&sk=t&sd=a

I tried different configurations until i got the write one, needless to say it was different than expected!

/home/xxx/xxx/

The JMS update then installed absolutly fine....

However I got back into the office today and the 'Path to Folder' address has reset itself to localhost/xxx/xxx/

This means that symbolic links were again forbidden - so i changed the address back again and seems ok.

Why would this address change, both;
- Server Settings > Path to Temp-folder
- System Settings > Path to Log folder

Strange?!?!?!

Each time you save a slave site, this rebuild the configuration.php files that is used by the slave site. The configuration.php file is build based on the website that must be copied.

If you modified the Global Configuration after you have created the slave site and later you resave the slave site definition, this will replace your current configuration.php files like if you have just created a new one.