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 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.