Federated: Trusted Servers all on Yellow, not Green

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  • NC 12.0.0
  • Different federated shares received and sent
  • All trusted servers on yellow:

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  1. How to bring them to Green?
  2. What is the difference between Yellow and Green?
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Same behavior in NC 12.0.1

Is there anywhere a detailed description of connecting Federated Nextclouds?

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Any solution?

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Yes indeed, it is called the documentation:

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.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/12/admin_manual/configuration_files/federated_cloud_sharing_configuration.html#configuring-trusted-nextcloud-servers

(if you open a web page in your browser, you can search with Ctrl+F for key words such as “yellow”)

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Hi @tflidd, Gutes Neues Jahr! :+1: :blush:

Of course we (the members of Telegram Nextcloud Group) have read the documentation! :wink:

We are running about 10 NCs.
We are trying to connect them all over Federated Sharing. But only a few (3) have a “Green connection” to one or two other servers.

What are the prereqisities for getting “Green connections”?

We checked:

  • SSL is always used, using LetsEncrypt certificates
  • Logged into the servers over configured URL, not local IPs
  • Federated shares are working
  • Encryption is disabled
  • Apps enabled: Federation

What is not working on “Yellow connections”:

  • User and group exchange

How to identify our mistakes!?!? :worried:

PS: Thanks for that absolutly helpful hint: “you can search with Ctrl+F for key words” :sunglasses:

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The configuration of these Nextcloud is identical? Especially the federated shared settings in the admin menu:

  • Allow users on this server to send shares to other servers
  • Allow users on this server to receive shares from other servers
  • Search global and public address book for users and let local users publish their data
  • Allow users to publish their data to a global and public address book

You can make green connections to 3 servers from all other setups? Is there something different about these setups? Anything in the logfiles?

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The logfiles are posted from my production Cloud(12.04) and the Testcloud (13beta2)

The connection is established but i can’t do anything. When I would share some files I get an certificate Issue.

Both Cloud’s has Letsencrypt certificates and installed on the same Server. The green connection is an Cloud hosted in http://ocloud.de

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I do have the same “problem”. Servers are added automatically to federated share but are yellow. I also added the domain to trusted_domains in the config.php but it is still yellow. Has this been solved by someone?

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Strange: Suddenly on @Lars_M and my server nearly all trusted servers are green! :smiley:

We both swear: We did not change anything! :thinking:

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Strange. I read this Thread this morning and would Look at my server if anything happen here. But now all Servers are green. I didn’t made any changes on the server. No restart, Nothing…

Maybe this need some times to “sync” between the connected servers?

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@hustenfrei, @Lars_M - how long did it take before turning green?

Mine is still yellow after more than 24 hours.

kr,
Martin

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Mine turned green too, don’t know how long it took but they are green now.

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… and another day (without changing anything) and they turned green!

Somehow intransparent but well …

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I can’t remember, but I think it was 24 - and 48 hours.

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For me and others time did not fix that unfortunately. Affected users landing on this page might refer to Federation: cannot add trusted server.

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Up.

Hello. I have two nextcloud instanses that I have trusted in Federated share before two week.

Both uses version 22.1.1 and both has trusted letsencrypt certificates

I have make all steps in documentation

I can share successfully files/folders between two instances, but they stay in yellow, not green.

What addiitional steps must I have to make to get it green ?

Thanks in advance.
Plamen

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I copy that question as it is (still and ever was) the same for me.

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I have tried a host of things as well and no avail. I have 5 nextcloud instances. All on 22. All sitting on a Ubuntu 20.04 server on bare metal. I have one pair of instances that see each other as green. The rest are yellow.

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Seems like almost no one really knows how to deal with it. It’s like a black bunny: people say they exist but I never saw one. I never saw green trust level instances either.

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Up 2022…
Can Any of NC developers can we tell us why still I see federation sharing in yellow, when all steps in documentation of NC was done?