I have established a federation between ServerA and ServerB.
Now Alice can share files on ServerA with Bob on ServerB by starting to type their name and “Bob on cloud.serverb.com” appears as suggestion.
On ServerB there also exists a Group “Friends” of whom Bob and others are members. I can share with everyone in the group by typing “Friends@cloud.serverb.com” and clicking on the “Remote Group” icon. But how can I enable suggestions for these groups, how can I synchronize groups as I synchronize contacts between trusted servers?
Add the remote server as trusted server on system level - this should enable address book sync
https://cloud.mydomain.tld/settings/admin/sharing
Federation allows you to connect with other trusted servers to exchange the account directory. For example this will be used to auto-complete external accounts for federated sharing. It is not necessary to add a server as trusted server in order to create a federated share.
Each server must validate the other. This process may require a few cron cycles.
I actually already have the two servers trust each other. I think this is also the reason why I get auto completion for regular users.
My question was how can I get it to sync not only remote users but also remote groups such that they appear in auto completion like local groups do already…
honestly I have no idea… if user sync works nothing should prevent group sync as well. maybe it was not implemented for a reason… or wasn’t considered as required. In my eyes it’s little “dangerous” to share with remote group - as somebody else control the group membership you never know who and how many have access to your share…
I would suggest you check the docs and if you don’t find explicit statement create Issue on Github to find out if the groups are not found intentionally or just oversight…
“dangerous” to share with remote group - as somebody else control the group membership you never know who and how many have access to your share…