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?
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I want to avoid having anything private or critical be internet facing.
Understandable, but if you’re sharing it, it’s not private in that sense anyway. This may be a legitimate use case for GDrive, Dropbox, Box, etc. Or just use sneakernet.
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I think for the Nextcloud federation to work, both instances need to be publicly accessible.
Not true, both instances need to be able to reach each other through a domain, but they don’t both need to be public.
Eh, that is the same thing. I wasn’t talking about public registrations or so.
That is most definitely not the same thing.
What do you think having a public IP means then?
For the described scenario only one public IP is necessary. The other Nextcloud instance could have an internal IP only.
I run two nextcloud instances for this exact purpose (set up using this role so it’s not more complex to manage than just one instance).
Personal instance on home server, shared instance on rented VPS. When I want to share a file/folder I just copy it to the VPS instance and use the “share by link” feature.
