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?

  • baduhaiEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

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

      • baduhaiEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        That is most definitely not the same thing.

          • TrinityTek@lemmy.fdr8.usEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

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