Hi there,
I have a new Nextcloud 15 installed on a shared hosting, and I intend to sync contacts and calendars with Mac OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) (mainly) and 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) (optional). On the same server is Nextcloud 12 installation I will probably keep for the foreseeable future as it has proper Dropbox support. Both installations use the same self-signed certificate (automatically generated by the hosting company thourgh Let’s Encrypt).
Calendar:
At first, I read the documentation and generated an app-specific password. It never sync’ed to Mac OS X 10.11.6. So I used the good old way and used my regular password, the one used to log my username in Nextcloud directly. Initially, it was able to read the calendar data from the server, but whatever I entered in Mac OS X’s calendar wasn’t uploaded. Solved after a reboot. So I assume the documentation is incorrect.
On Mac OS X 10.6.8, it worked at the first try.
Contacts:
I still have a working Nextcloud 12 installation on the same server. Both calendar and contacts where successfully synced to 10.11.6.
However, whenever I try to sync OS X’s contacts with NC 15 contacts, I always get an error “Can’t verify username” from OS X’s Contacts. No matter if I try my username’s password or an app-specific password.
As a matter of comparison, entering the same settings in iOS 10.3 also gives an error, but at least provides an option to keep the settings anyway. Soon after, contacts from NC 15 appear properly in iOS.
But there’s no such option in Mac OS X: if username / password pair can’t be validated, then it won’t store the settings.
At the moment, only Contacts from NC12 sync reliably between Mac OS X 10.11.6 and iOS.
How can I sync NC15 contacts to 10.11.6?
Sure I can keep the contacts on NC12 and do everything else on NC15, but it isn’t very practical.
