Is it possible to disable Federated Cloud?

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Summary of the issue you are facing:

Hello everyone,

we are currently setting up our first Nextcloud . Is there now a way to disable Federated Cloud (federatedfilesharing) for users?

In any case, this does not work:

docker compose exec -it -u 33 nextcloud php occ app:disable federatedfilesharing
federatedfilesharing cannot be disabled.

Does anyone have any tips?

Many thanks

Mike

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Hello @MiK2026,

welcome to the Nextcloud community! :handshake:

to be honest I didn’t try to disable federated sharing as federation is big advantage in my eyes.. but according to the docs it should be possible to disable federated sharing. Please review the docs Configuring Federation Sharing — Nextcloud latest Administration Manual latest documentation

Update: look at https://cloud.mydomain/settings/admin/sharing

In my case Federation turned up as an app in the apps panel of the admin user. There I could disable it.

I am not sure though if it turns federation off completely…

In some environments the federation may be strictly undesirable, that is why it is good to have a switch to turn the federation completely off or disable.

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