Hi, finally setting up Nextcloud in an effort to de-Google myself and replace GDrive for good.

I am currently running Nextcloud via Tailscale and that works fine except for when i want to share a file to someone outside of my Tailnet. I have heard of federated Nextcloud but i am not sure that i quite understood the purpose of this or maybe there is a better solution? If i run two instances like that, will i simply be able to share certain files over to that instance for sharing?

  • poVoqEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    I think for the Nextcloud federation to work, both instances need to be publicly accessible.

    • baduhaiEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Not true, both instances need to be able to reach each other through a domain, but they don’t both need to be public.

      • poVoqEnglish
        -4•2 years ago

        Eh, that is the same thing. I wasn’t talking about public registrations or so.

        • baduhaiEnglish
          3•2 years ago

          That is most definitely not the same thing.

          • poVoqEnglish
            -1•2 years ago

            What do you think having a public IP means then?

            • TrinityTekEnglish
              3•2 years ago

              For the described scenario only one public IP is necessary. The other Nextcloud instance could have an internal IP only.