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Configuring Federation Sharing
==============================
Federated Cloud Sharing is now managed by the Federation app (9.0+), and is
now called Federation sharing. When you enable the Federation app you can
easily and securely link file shares between ownCloud servers, in effect
creating a cloud of ownClouds.
When you enable the Federation app you can easily and securely link file shares
between Nextcloud servers, in effect creating a cloud of Nextclouds.
Sharing With ownCloud 8 and Older
---------------------------------
Creating a Federation Share
---------------------------
Direct Federation shares (:ref:`label-direct-share-link`) are not supported in
ownCloud 8 and older, so you must create Federation shares with public links
(:ref:`label-public-link-share`).
.. _label-direct-share-link:
Creating a new Federation Share (9.0+ only)
-------------------------------------------
Follow these steps to create a new Federation share between two ownCloud 9.0+
Follow these steps to create a new Federation share between two Nextcloud
servers. This requires no action by the user on the remote server; all it takes
is a few steps on the originating server.
1. Enable the Federation app.
2. Go to your ownCloud Admin page and scroll to the Sharing
2. Go to your Nextcloud Admin page and scroll to the Sharing
section. Verify that **Allow users on this server to send shares to other
servers** and **Allow users on this server to receive shares from other
servers** are enabled.
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3. Now go to the Federation
section. By default, **Add server automatically once a federated share was
created successfully** is checked. The Federation app supports creating a
list of trusted ownCloud servers, which allows the trusted servers to
list of trusted Nextcloud servers, which allows the trusted servers to
exchange user directories and auto-complete the names of external users when
you create shares. If you do not want this enabled, then un-check it.
.. figure:: images/federation-0.png
3. Now go to your Files page and select a folder to share. Click the share
icon, and then enter the username and URL of the user on the remote ownCloud
server. In this example, that is ``freda@https://example.com/owncloud``.
When ownCloud verifies the link, it displays it with the **(remote)** label.
icon, and then enter the username and URL of the user on the remote Nextcloud
server. In this example, that is ``freda@https://example.com/nextcloud``.
When Nextcloud verifies the link, it displays it with the **(remote)** label.
Click on this label to establish the link.
.. figure:: images/federation-2.png
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You may disconnect the share at any time by clicking the trash can icon.
Configuring Trusted ownCloud Servers
------------------------------------
Configuring Trusted Nextcloud Servers
-------------------------------------
You may create a list of trusted ownCloud servers for Federation sharing. This
allows your linked ownCloud servers to share user directories, and to auto-fill
You may create a list of trusted Nextcloud servers for Federation sharing. This
allows your linked Nextcloud servers to share user directories, and to auto-fill
user names in share dialogs. If **Add server automatically once a federated
share was created successfully** is enabled on your Admin page, servers will be
automatically added to your trusted list when you create new Federation shares.
You may also enter ownCloud server URLs in the **Add ownCloud Server** field.
You may also enter Nextcloud server URLs in the **Add Nextcloud Server** field.
The yellow light indicates a successful connection, with no user names
exchanged. The green light indicates a successful connection with user names
exchanged. A red light means the connection failed.
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Creating Federation Shares via Public Link Share
------------------------------------------------
You'll need to use a Public Link Share to create Federation shares with
ownCloud 8.x and older.
Check the ``Share Link`` checkbox to expose more sharing options (which are
described more fully in :doc:`file_sharing_configuration`). You may create a
Federation share by allowing ownCloud to create a public link for you, and then
Federation share by allowing Nextcloud to create a public link for you, and then
email it to the person you want to create the share with.
.. figure:: images/create_public_share-6.png
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You may optionally set a password and expiration date on it. When your recipient
receives your email they must click the link, or copy it to a Web
browser. They will see a page displaying a thumbnail of the file, with a button
to **Add to your ownCloud**.
to **Add to your Nextcloud**.
.. figure:: images/create_public_share-8.png
Your recipient should click the **Add to your ownCloud** button. On the next
screen your recipient needs to enter the URL to their ownCloud
Your recipient should click the **Add to your Nextcloud** button. On the next
screen your recipient needs to enter the URL to their Nextcloud
server, and then press the return key.
.. figure:: images/create_public_share-9.png
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connections (see :doc:`../installation/installation_wizard`). Consider also
enabling SSL to encrypt all traffic between your servers .
Your ownCloud server creates the share link from the URL that you used to log
Your Nextcloud server creates the share link from the URL that you used to log
into the server, so make sure that you log into your server using a URL that is
accessible to your users. For example, if you log in via its LAN IP address,
such as ``http://192.168.10.50``, then your share URL will be something like