Federated sharing with spaces in usernames

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Hi all,

I am trying to share a directory with a user on another ownCloud server. However, this user has a space in his username (Firstname Lastname). So, instead of sharing the directory with username@urltoowncloudserver.com (which works, we’ve tried with another user without spaces), it seems I should share it with Firstname Lastname@urltoowncloudserver.com. My problem is that this URL is not accepted by my ownCloud server. What is the correct way (if any) to share with this user?

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I tried to reproduce your error @demaratus but for me it works:

  • create shared folder on server1 (OC 8.2)
  • share folder with my user@server2/nextcloud (NC 10)

(both on debian 8, apache, php7 from dotdeb)

Can you give more information about the OC versions being used and the configuration?

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Both servers are running raspbian on raspberry pi 3. Apache and php are installed from the default repositories. The ownCloud version is in both cases 9.0.0.

Here is a screenshot of my situation:

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Without the space in the username, the input field gives me a dropdown that I can select to share the folder. With the space, I get the error message (in Dutch) “no users or groups found”.

Is there any specific information I can provide?

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Can you update to a current version which would be 9.0.4?

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I have updated my server to 9.0.4 and still no luck in sharing my folder. I’m now waiting for my friend to update his server, since I don’t have access to it.

I will come back to you once this is finished. Thanks already for the help so far!

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Just a quick note, I should have mentioned this in my initial post: both servers are accessed through the pagekite system (www.pagekite.net).

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Wait, I think I found a 9.0.x system and try to reproduce it…

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So I had a setup on my raspberry pi. I can reproduce this error with version OC 9.0.4 and with OC 9.0.5RC1 as well.

Sharing to my user@example.org/nextcloud (nextcloud 10):
OC 8.2.7 → ok
OC 9.0.4 → failed
OC 9.0.5RC1 → failed

sorry, I currently have no test setup on OC 9.1 which I can use for tests.

@demaratus: Please open a bug report on GitHub · Where software is built

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The bug report is here: Cannot share folder to a user on another server with a username containing spaces · Issue #25955 · owncloud/core · GitHub. In the future I may upgrade to 9.1 and see if the issue also exists there, but currently I have no time.

Thanks for the help!

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The bug is also in OC 9.1. The fix for OC 9.0.x is here:

and will be included in OC 9.0.6.